Negotiations to form a coalition in the Netherlands have collapsed after the leader of the far-right Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, walked out. Mr Wilders said he did not trust some members of the Christian Democrats to adhere to any agreement...

A McDonald’s outlet in the Netherlands was wrong to sack an employee for giving a colleague a piece of cheese on a hamburger, a court has ruled. The waitress was fired last March after she sold a hamburger to a co-worker who then asked for...

A Dutch court has stopped a 14-year-old girl from sailing around the world on her own for at least eight months. Laura Dekker seeks to be the youngest person to sail solo around the world.