Amsterdam to host Hirst's skull (Reuters via Yahoo! News) British artist Damien Hirst's human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds will go on show at an Amsterdam museum in November.

Hirst's Skull To Open World Tour in Amsterdam (The New York Sun) Damien Hirst has chosen the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to start a world tour of his $100 million diamond skull. "The theme of the skull is the aversion of death in art," a Rijksmuseum spokeswoman, Elles Kamphuis, said in a telephone interview today. "That is also a popular theme in paintings from the Dutch Golden Age." The Dutch museum, which houses Rembrandt's "The Night Watch," pledged to clear ...

Amsterdam to host Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Artist Damien Hirst's human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds will go on show at an Amsterdam museum in November.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-28 06:40 UPDATE 1-Ahold's Q2 operating profit down 14 pct, keeps target (Interactive Investor) AMSTERDAM, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Dutch supermarket group Ahold's second-quarter operating profit fell by a bigger than expected 14.2 percent after price cuts and promotions to attract cash-strapped shoppers hurt margins.

Top trio start Dutch league with new coaches (Khaleej Times) ROTTERDAM - For the first time since 1959 Ajax Amsterdam, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, the traditional top three in the Dutch championship, kick off their league campaigns all under the command of a new coach.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-28 06:13 Dutch Ahold Q2 operating profit down 14.2 pct (Interactive Investor) AMSTERDAM, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Dutch supermarket group Ahold said on Thursday second-quarter operating profit fell by a bigger-than-expected 14.2 percent after price cuts and promotions to attract cash-strapped shoppers hurt margins.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-28 05:55 Benelux stocks - Factors to watch on Aug 28 (Interactive Investor) AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The following Benelux stocks may be affected by newspaper reports and other factors on Thursday: AHOLD Dutch retailer reports Q2 results. For more, double click on [AHLN.AS]

REFILES-Karadzic to appear at Hague tribunal for plea hearing (AlertNet) Source: Reuters (Refiles adding dropped word in third paragraph) By Reed Stevenson AMSTERDAM, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic faces the U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for ...

Karadzic to appear at Hague tribunal for plea hearing (Deepika) AMSTERDAM, Aug 27 (Reuters) Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic faces the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the second time on Friday, where he will be asked to enter a plea for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

EU pays for, then ignores study on copyright extension (Ars Technica) An academic from the University of Amsterdam is seething after the European Commission requested several reports from him, then utterly failed to mention them as it proposed a 45-year copyright term extension that he had argued against. Read More...