Demonstrators gathered in Dam Sq, Amsterdam in an illegal protest against Israel's action in Gaza. The ban followed recent attacks on Tel Aviv Maccabi fans in the city.

Marina Abramovic Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Five suspects accused of violence against Maccabi Tel Aviv football supporters on 11th December 2024, at the Rechtbank, criminal court in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dutch police have re-opened the cold case of the murder of the sex worker Betty Szabo in 2009, in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, in the Netherlands, Creating a hologram to try to encourage witnesses to come forward and reveal her murderer..

Jordaan, Amsterdam, as the city launches it s 750th anniversary celebrations

Hundreds of protesters assemble on Saturday 30/11/24 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in a pro-Palestinian protest march from the Stopera to Museumplein.

The market in Plein 40 – 45, an area of Amsterdam with a large Muslim population, a few days after supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv were attacked in the city.

Champions League match between PSV Eindhoven and Girona

At the Free Willie late night bar and lounge in Amsterdam, Netherlands 11/04/2024, which caters to cis- and trans- gay & queer men, the dress code is footwear only. Here patrons are encouraged to otherwise entirely disrobe, as the bar’s owners are convinced naked socialising enhances conviviality. However, if you must, you may retain your underwear.

Pro-Israel demonstration at the Stopera, in Amsterdam, NL.

Prinncess Beatrix of the Netherlands at the preview of 'Queens by Andy Warhol' at Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Warhol’s series of sixteen silkscreen prints depict the four reigning queens in the world at the time.

“De Sloopkogels”, from the Eetcafe Halve Maan (or in translation - “The Wrecking Balls” from the Half Moon Café), take on the locals – the 188Euroknallers (the 188Eurobangers) at the Bar Club 188 in the DSWN regional darts competition in The Hague, Netherlands.

Tulip fields in Spierdijk in the Noord Holland province of the Netherlands on 24/4/2024, where climate change and Brexit collide to damage tulip production.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema addresses an emergency meeting of the Amsterdam city council days after the Dutch capital was rocked by violence between Israeli football fans and men on scooters in several areas of the city in Amsterdam on November 12, 2024

Pro-Palestinian students occupy Amsterdam University campus.

“Dior: a New Look” at Kunstmuseum, in The Hague, NL.

Gerry Halman, aka Lord Gregarious has spent the last 34 years building Castle Olt Stoutenburght in his back garden, in Blesdijke, Friesland

Dutch farmers are facing a crisis in an upsurge in surplus manure, following the phasing out of a derogation from the EU’s Nitrates Directive, which allowed the farmers to exceed the directive’s limits on slurry spreading on the farms. The directive aims to limit excess nutrient pollution of the water course often caused by runoff from fields that have been fertilized with manure. Leaving farmers such as Jos Verstraten with the problem of how to dispose of the expected byproduct that their animals produce.

EU leaders gathered Monday 17th June in Brussels following the European Parliamentary elections, at informal dinner to discuss electing the President of the European Council, nominating the President of the European Commission and appointing the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

Cannabis production at Hollandse Hoogtes, in the Netherlands. Over the next four years, canabis is to be produced by 10 licensed growers, including Hollandse Hoogtes, as part of a Dutch government trial, to decide whether cannabis production should be legalized. Hitherto, although the sale of cannabis has been tolerated by the State, its production has been illegal.

The National Holocaust Museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The European Hyperloop Center (EHC), Veendam, Netherlands, a 420m testing facility constructed to develop hyperloop technologies where tech companies will work on the development of the hyperloop as a sustainable transportation system of the future.

Initial tests of a hyperloop vehicle at the European Hyperloop Center’s (EHC), 420m long tunnel in Veendam, NL, on September 7, 2024. The tunnel has been developed to develop hyperloop technologies as potential future sustainable transportation systems.

Israel’s legal team presents its response to South Africa’s request of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, seeking emergency measures that Israel cease its attacks on Rafah and that it take immediate measures to allow access to Gaza for the provision of humanitarian aid..

South Africa seeks emergency measures that Israel cease its attacks on Rafah and that it take immediate measures to allow access to Gaza for the provision of humanitarian aid..

Following the UN’s request the International Court of Justice, otherwise known as the world’s court delivers it opinion on the question of the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

The press gathers to cover Gert Wilders vote at a polling station in the The Hague, Netherlands, the first country to vote, in the European elections.

Ede, Netherlands four people were taken hostage at knifepoint at the Café Petticoat.

Two WW2 Allied servicemen, are laid to rest in Oosterbeek, NL 80 years after giving their lives as part of operation Market Garden, an Allied effort to open up an invasion route to Nazi Germany.

Je, Anne a theatrical production based on Anne Frank’s diaries, returns to the stage. The new production takes passages directly from Anne’s diary, interwoven with Michael Cohen’s music and Enid Futterman’s lyrics, to tell the story of Frank’s period in hiding in Amsterdam, between 1942 and 1944.

The Keukenhof gardens opened to the public, in Lisse Netherlands,, celebrates its 75th anniversary, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to enjoy a bewildering array of seven million bulbs. The Keukenhof park, just south-west of Amsterdam in the heart of "bulb country", contains millions of tulips of every colour plus other flowers across 32 hectares (80 acres). The park in the western Netherlands attracted 1.4 million visited last year.

The Aufguss World Championships, at Thermen Bussloo, Voorst, NL which is partly a performance and partly a ritual where essential oils having been added to ice and water are thrown over the hot sauna stones by the sauna master. Rapidly increasing the temperature of the sauna, which may exceed 90c. The sauna master then brandishes towels driving the super-heated air over the attendees, who are largely naked. .During the competition, the performances of the sauna masters are judged by an international jury on the theatre of the piece, the scents added to the water, but most importantly on their wafting technique. Which has evolved over recent years to resemble a form of artistic gymnastics, where competitors spin their towels high into the air, between their legs, or juggle two towels at the same time.

The MH17 National Monument, Park Vijfhuizen near Amsterdam Schiphol airport, in the Netherlands, following the tenth anniversary of the shooting down of flight MH17 by a surface to air missile fired from eastern Ukraine - an area controlled by pro-Russsian forces, killing 298 passengers. The memorial consists of an amphitheatre surrounded by 298 trees, which were for the most part planted by the victims’ relatives, representing each passenger or crew member. This in turn is surrounded by sunflower fields, echoing the site of the crashed aircraft in the Ukrainian sunflower fields. The focus of the memorial is a stainless steel ellipsoidal sculpture into which are engraved the names of each victim, which stands against a curved steel wall.

The Picnic food delivery company, has no physical stores, but uses IT to organise deliveries of its customers groceries from its distribution centre in Utrecht, in the Netherlands in a highly automated process – here boxes of groceries are moved via automated and robotic processes to various parts of the centre according the goods required.

Party boats sail in the Canal Parade, along the city’s 17th century canals in a climax to nine days of Pride Amsterdam in the Dutch capital,, Visitors and locals alike attend one of the largest LGBTQ festivals worlwide. With its motto “Be who you are, love who you want”, and its hashtag #together,