On May 10 1969, Dutch football master Dennis Bergkamp was born in Amsterdam, Holland.
A football icon renowned for scoring extraordinary goals, Bergkamp is regarded as one of the top players ever to represent the likes of Ajax and Arsenal.
The ‘Non-Flying Dutchman' is also Holland's second top (...)
On April 25 1947, Johan Cruyff was born in Amsterdam, Holland.
Undoubtedly one of the most gifted footballers of all time, the Flying Dutchman is regarded as a strong promoter of the Total Football philosophy.
Cruyff, who won the Ballon d'Or three times in the early 70s, dazzled for Ajax and (...)
OCI N.V. announced that as of the latest filings on 31 January 2013, shareholders, including the Sawiris family and Abraaj Capital, holding a total of 149,036,822 shares representing 93.3% of OCI's Regulation S GDRs (GDRs) and 72.0% of total shares outstanding have accepted the offer to exchange (...)
Liverpool sit seven points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League table with 14 games remaining and will face competition from Merseyside rivals Everton in fifth and sixth-placed Arsenal for a top-four berth.
"If you want to know what will happen to me if we don't qualify for (...)
Controversial Liverpool striker Luis Suarez believes he is picked on by the British media but admits that he did dive earlier this season in a Premier League match.
In an interview with Fox Sports Latin America, the Uruguayan said he often made headlines because his name sold (...)
Prosecutor Brigit Haan says police arrested a 16-year-old boy Thursday night on suspicion of involvement in the attack.
The latest arrest comes on the eve of a weekend in which all amateur matches have been canceled nationwide as a mark of respect for 41-year-old Richard Nieuwenhuizen, who was (...)
Former goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has joined the board of Ajax Amsterdam as marketing director, the Dutch club said on Monday.
In a statement the club said Van der Sar, who began his playing career with Ajax and ended it after six years at Manchester United, had joined the board along with (...)
Etisalat announced today the launch of Smarthub IPX, a neutral mobile Internet exchange in its world-class Smarthub facility. The exchange will allow mobile operators, both from within the region and outside, to peer with each other on a neutral basis through the Smarthub IPX. The Smarthub IPX will (...)
Moroccan forward Mounir El Hamdaoui said he wants to play as a second striker at Fiorentina, which he joined from Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam.
The 27-year-old has joined the Italian side for an undisclosed fee after cutting a forlorn figure at Ajax.
"I am very happy to be here and hope to be useful (...)
SAS, the leading provider of business analytics software and services, will add high-performance text mining to its powerful in-memory analytics software in the third quarter of 2012. The announcement came at The Premier Business Leadership Series event in Amsterdam, a business conference presented (...)
SAS, the provider of business analytics software and services, will add high-performance text mining to its powerful in-memory analytics software in the third quarter of 2012.
The announcement came at The Premier Business Leadership Series event in Amsterdam, a business conference presented by SAS. (...)
استقبل ميناء الزيتيات البحرى بالسويس صباح اليوم الجمعة، سفينة الشحن "masr jazz"، وعلى متنها 6400 طن بوتاجاز قادمة من ميناء ينبع السعودى فى أولى الرحلات لنقل البوتاجاز خلال شهر إبريل، بعد وصول ما يقرب من 130 ألف طن بوتاجاز خلال شهر مارس الماضى.
وغادر 4000 سائح مختلف الجنسيات على متن العبارات (...)
PAL-V Europe NV, a Dutch company has successfully finished carrying out test-flights of its flying car. The innovative vehicle can to be driven just like a normal car with the added bonus of being able to fly as high as 4,000 feet, which is low enough not to interfere in commercial airspace.
PAL-V, (...)
Amsterdam (dpa) – Dutch health authorities were aware that minors were castrated in Roman Catholic institutions for the mentally-ill in the 1950s, the De Limburger newspaper reported on Monday.
The newspaper said that local health officials were present at board meetings of Catholic institutions (...)
Rooney became ill following last week's 2-0 victory in the first leg of the last-32 match in Amsterdam. He was sent home despite reporting for training on Wednesday morning.
United manager Alex Ferguson says Rooney “has a really bad throat. There were traces of it in Amsterdam and we gave him (...)
Ryan Giggs will have to wait a little longer before making his 900th appearance for Manchester United after being left out of the squad for the Europa League round-of-32 first-leg match against Ajax in Amsterdam on Thursday.
Features and profiles on Giggs, 38, appeared in many newspapers on (...)
Ajax Amsterdam's entire board, including Johan Cruyff, will step down, the Dutch league club said on Thursday.
The resignations of the five members, who also include Edgar Davids and chairman Steven ten Have, follow an Amsterdam court decision on Tuesday banning the naming of Louis van Gaal as (...)
Children who get more exercise also tend to o better in school, whether the exercise comes as recess, physical education classes or getting exercise on the way to school, according to an international study
The findings, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, come as U.S. (...)
A Dutch Cup tie between Ajax and AZ Alkmaar, abandoned last Wednesday after a fan ran on to the pitch and tried to assault AZ goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado, will be replayed behind closed doors on January 19, the Dutch football federation (KNVB) said on Wednesday.
The December 22 incident led to (...)
Cruyff is currently embroiled in a bitter dispute with the four other members of the Ajax supervisory board over their appointment last week of Louis van Gaal as club director.
Allegations surfaced over the weekend that Cruyff directed a racist comment at Davids, who is of Surinamese descent. (...)
AMSTERDAM (Updated) - The International Criminal Court Prosecutor's Office said on Saturday it had received confirmation of the arrest of Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, from Libya's Ministry of Justice.
"We are coordinating with the Libyan Ministry of Justice to ensure that any solution with (...)
Zamalek striker Ahmed ‘Mido' Hossam has skipped training for a second day ahead of Friday's match against El-Entag El-Harby on day four of the Egyptian Premier League season.
“Mido will be punished because he didn't have permission to be absent,” Zamalek football director Ismail Youssef told (...)
AMSTERDAM — Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Friday it is trying to stop oil leaking from a flow line at one of its drilling platforms in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.
Spokesman David Williams confirmed the leak was ongoing late Friday, but would not provide details beyond a company (...)
Most obese people with diabetes will be cured of it by weight loss surgery, with gastric bypass surgery allowing more than 80 percent of patients to come off their diabetes medication, according to a study.
The report in Archives of Surgery concerned a review of earlier studies led by Rick (...)
“Acting chairman Peter Pannu received an e-mail resignation from McLeish earlier today while away on business in Amsterdam,” the club said in a statement on their website (www.bcfc.com).
McLeish, a former central defender who served Aberdeen and Scotland for many years, established his (...)