Monday is the second day of the year, which means millions of Americans have started new diets. They resolved to lose weight, get in shape, and they are starting strong.
An explosion blew out windows at a court in the Netherlands early Wednesday, police in Amsterdam confirmed.
The Netherlands plans to ban foreigners from the country's famed pot shops, a decision Amsterdam's tourism industry hopes goes up in smoke.
I recently returned to Amsterdam from the latest round of U.N. climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, and found this city of canals covered in snow. It was a beautiful sight. Yet rather than filling me with joy, it caused me concern.
CNN's Becky Anderson asks a panel of climate change fighters about what they're doing to tackle climate change.
A terror suspect of Somali origin was arrested early Sunday at Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, officials said.
Two men held in the Netherlands may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked baggage, a U.S. law enforcement source said Monday.
One person died when a bus going from Amsterdam to Paris crashed on a highway just inside the French border, a local official told CNN on Saturday.
When American entrepreneur Adam Dunn moved to the Netherlands at age 19, his first business plan wasn't anything to write home about. He'd crammed 300 Rolling Stones concert T-shirts into his luggage, hoping to sell them for some quick cash.
Some travelers are surprised when I tell them to consider biking in Europe. I explain that it's not only a cheap way to travel, but it gets you close to the ground and close to the people.
The pilot of a Boeing 737 was in the cockpit, preparing to take off with 101 passengers, when police arrested him for flying with a fake pilot's license, investigators said.
The full-body scanning technology being adopted and discussed since the attempt to take down a passenger plane on Christmas Day isn't a "magic machine" that will solve aviation security issues, experts say.
The TSA demonstrates its latest weapon to combat would-be terrorists. CNN's Sandra Endo reports.
Dutch officials say they will start using full body scanners for passengers boarding flights to the United States.
The Netherlands and Nigeria will begin using body scanners on airline passengers following the attempted terrorist attack on a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day, authorities in both nations said Wednesday.
The White House says a review has been ordered of airport security procedures.
President Obama has ordered a review of security screening processes after Friday's botched terror attack on a U.S. airliner, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday.
Last week's attempted terror attack on an airplane heading from Amsterdam to Detroit has given rise to a bunch of familiar questions.
Airline stocks opened lower Monday after a botched terror attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit on Christmas Day shook the industry.
Passengers flying into the United States from abroad should expect additional security measures at U.S. and international airports after a passenger detonated a device aboard a flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan, the Transportation Security Administration said Saturday.
Increased airline security -- fallout from the attempted destruction of a flight bound for Detroit. Jeanne Meserve
The alleged terror incident aboard a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Detroit has raised questions as to how a Nigerian man carried explosives through stringent security measures.
Counterterrorism officers were Saturday searching the suspected London home of a man at the center of an incident aboard a U.S.-bound passenger flight that Britain's home secretary described as a "potentially serious security threat."
A Nigerian man is "talking a lot" to the FBI, said a senior U.S. official, after what the United States believes was an attempted terrorist attack on an inbound international flight.
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The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital.
The pastoral Dutch village of Vollenhove might seem an odd place for two of the tech world's most celebrated launches. But just outside Amsterdam, the Royal Huisman Shipyard has done it again with two magnificent custom-built megayachts.
With rates as low as $36, these flashy new European hotels take the convenience of the pod concept and expand it with style.
Seven people were arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb densely populated areas in Amsterdam, Netherlands, police said Thursday.
Boeing is asking pilots who fly its 737 jets to pay careful attention to flight instruments after Dutch investigators said a faulty altimeter contributed to the recent crash of a 737 in the Netherlands.
A "faulty" flight instrument contributed to the crash of a Turkish plane last month in the Netherlands, an accident that killed nine people and injured more than 60 others, Dutch safety authorities said on Wednesday.
The Turkish Airlines plane that crashed this week in Amsterdam fell almost vertically to the ground, making only a short track in the muddy farmer's field where it went down, Dutch investigators said Friday.
Survivors of the Turkish Airlines crash return to Turkey just days after the accident. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
The crash of a Turkish airliner in the Netherlands and the recent landing of a jet in the Hudson River in New York demonstrate how safe modern aircraft have become, according to safety experts.
Despite recent air accidents, flying is still among the safest ways to travel. CNN's Ayesha Durgahee reports.
The nationalities of the people killed in the Turkish Airlines plane crash near Amsterdam's main airport have been identified as five Turks and four U.S. citizens.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused the crash of an airplane with a good safety record, flown by a well-respected airline, at one of the world's most modern airports.
A Turkish passenger jet crashed as it tried to land at Amsterdam's main airport Wednesday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 55, Dutch airport authorities have said.
When I'm updating my guidebooks, one of my favorite places to visit is rollicking Amsterdam. This Dutch metropolis is ever changing -- and ever crowded with fun-loving sightseers.
They've played in some of the coolest clubs around. So it goes without saying that these six jazz greats know a thing or two about where they like to chill out between gigs.
German federal police seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft at Cologne airport Friday shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam, officials told CNN.
German special police arrested two terror suspects on an airplane at the Cologne-Bonn airport.
I've found vacation nirvana for teenagers and it's a place parents will like just as much as teens do.
Even after 20 years of visits, I always need a day to adjust to the wonders of Amsterdam. So I spend my first day here checking out small changes in the city -- a new handbag museum, a church turned into a mosque, a free ferry ride to an industrial complex where there is a skateboarders' warehouse filled with teenyboppers.
The Anne Frank House museum said Friday it has restored 52 photographs and images the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while hiding from the Nazis
To help stem the spread of the HIV epidemic, public health officials are making a renewed effort to reach out to closeted gay men in oppressive societies
Fifteen camels, several llamas and a potbellied pig broke out of a circus near Amsterdam on Monday. The ringleader? A giraffe who bolted, too.
Visiting the Netherlands, the couple make the most of their working European vacation
Go behind the scenes with CNN's Christiane Amanpour in Amsterdam as part of 'God's Warriors.'
The crooner hints around a hilarious trip to a caféwatching bowling
Dutch scientists claim they have completed the first sequencing of an individual woman's DNA
A Web site where a Dutch lawmaker was promoting an upcoming film that criticizes the Quran has been suspended by its U.S. hosting service
Artists and other creative types are having their way with hotel rooms -- and they're thinking way outside the box.
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Budget Travel's Erik Torkels shows us hotels across the world that are thinking outside the box when it comes to design.
Prohibition of a popular hallucinogen will reshape the drugs market in Europe's Sin City
The city is committing millions to transforming its historic marketplace of sex and drugs into a more family-friendly neighborhood
A non-profit corporation has purchased buildings in Amsterdam's Red Light District where prostitutes pose in windows in a deal that may lead to a third being shuttered
Pete Hamill thought he'd seen it all. And then the best-selling writer thought up a character who really had.
After several bad trips by foreigners, there's talk -- but just talk -- of a crackdown
Carlyle Capital Corporation Ltd. began trade on Amsterdam's stock exchange at $20 per share Wednesday, after a trimmed initial public offering that raised $303.5 million for the affiliate of Carlyle Group.
How does Tom Cruise feel about David and Victoria Beckham's upcoming move to Los Angeles?
A machine for the home that can make anything, even itself sounds like the dream of a science fiction fan, but a device using open source software developed at Cornell University has been designed to do just that. Could it represent the dawn of the arts and crafts movement for the digital age or open the gateway to the destruction of intellectual property rights and copyright?
Do airlines play fair when it comes to dealing with delays?
Amsterdam is blessed and cursed by its reputation as the world's most liberal city. So many backpackers, stag nighters and lost weekenders flood into the city each day in search of a pot-smoking party town that their expectations have become self-fulfilling.
Twelve passengers were in custody Wednesday after a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Mumbai, India, returned to Amsterdam with a fighter jet escort, Dutch police said.
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The Scene talks to photographer Anton Corbijn about how Amsterdam's artistic traditions and liberal culture have influenced his work.
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The Scene spent the day in Amsterdam with photographer Anton Corbijn. Do you have a favorite hangout in the Dutch city? What's your favorite Anton Corbijn photograph? Send us your suggestions and ideas and read your comments below.
Check out The Scene's recommendations for the Dutch cultural capital and send us your ideas and suggestions.
Dutch authorities detained seven terrorist suspects believed to be plotting attacks on politicians and the bombing of a government building, officials said.
On the day of his cremation, hundreds of people laid flowers, candles and notes at the spot where controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was killed.
A passenger train and a freight train collided at Amsterdam's Central Station, injuring several people and trapping many in damaged rail cars, a spokesman for the Amsterdam police said.
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