Art experts in the Netherlands have claimed that a piece long thought to be an imitation was actually painted by Rembrandt himself. "The Raising of the Cross" oil sketch had been left forgotten for a century in a corner of the Museum Bredius in The Hague since its acquisition in…
Newborn baby elephant takes his first wobbly steps under the watchful eye of his mum shortly after being born. The astonishing video - recorded at the Blijdorp Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands - shows the mum in labour as other tuskers gather around to help her. As the calf emerges,…
A study led by UK and German scientists has revealed that Anglo-Saxons were only 24 per cent English. Early-medieval mass migrations influenced the formation of British society by increasing its European ancestry up to 76 per cent. Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Central Lancashire researchers…
Dutch boffins have debunked the myth that camel poo can help treat dysentery as was previously believed to have been done by nomadic Arab tribes in North Africa. The microbiologists from the Amsterdam UMC and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands rejected the common belief according to which camel…
A museum in Amsterdam has returned a Kandinsky painting worth millions to the descendants of its Jewish owners who had to sell it under duress to escape the Nazis during World War II. The handover of the 'Bild mit Haeusern' ('Picture with Houses', 1909) by the famous Russian artist Wassily…
German and US researchers have discovered two incredible snails - one of which is smaller than a grain of sand and believed to be the world's tiniest land snail, and the second is also a small snail that decorates its shell with tiny pieces of faeces. The presumed smallest species…
Customs officers at Duesseldorf Airport have seized a skinned and roasted protected pangolin that a woman from Ghana was planning to eat. The incident took place at Duesseldorf Airport, which is located in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on 12th January 2022, but the information has just been…
More than a hundred British holidaymakers were refused entry to Austria after they turned up without proof of a booster vaccination and without a negative PCR test that is less than 48 hours old. The refusal comes as a part of tough new measures in Austria for guests from Great…
Flights from the UK to Austria could be cancelled as early as Friday, upsetting the winter tourism season, as the Austrian government apparently attempts to reclassify the United Kingdom as an Omicron COVID-19 hotspot. The Ministry of Health in Vienna is planning to reclassify the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark and…
These images show how a tree in Holland has nearly finished swallowing a traffic sign that was affixed to it years ago. The traffic sign, which limits the speed to 20 kph (12.4 mph), is located at the entrance to the Landgoed De Horste estate, near the municipality of Wassenaar…