Dutch Marathon

Two giant pandas arrived by plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport Wednesday after a marathon 8,000 kilometre journey from China, the first breeding pair on Dutch soil in three decades.

In the 1976 film "Marathon Man," British actor Laurence Olivier plays the role of a Nazi dentist who violently tortures the mouth of a Columbia University student, played by Dustin Hoffman.

Dutch troops joined a race against time on Wednesday to prepare ice for a legendary 125-mile (200-kilometer) race across frozen waterways in the northern Netherlands that could be staged for the first time in 15 years. A group of 50 soldiers in camouflage fatigues shovelled snow along a possible alternative route in case ice on part of the traditio...

Two giant pandas arrived by plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport Wednesday after a marathon 8,000 kilometre journey from China, the first breeding pair on Dutch soil in three decades.

In the 1976 film "Marathon Man," British actor Laurence Olivier plays the role of a Nazi dentist who violently tortures the mouth of a Columbia University student, played by Dustin Hoffman.

Dutch troops joined a race against time on Wednesday to prepare ice for a legendary 125-mile (200-kilometer) race across frozen waterways in the northern Netherlands that could be staged for the first time in 15 years. A group of 50 soldiers in camouflage fatigues shovelled snow along a possible alternative route in case ice on part of the traditio...