Howling polar bears and belly dancers liven up Amsterdam's Museum Night
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In the cold November night visitors to the Dutch maritime museum were greeted by howling polar bears while the animals in Artis zoo were awoken by torchlight during the Amsterdam Museum Night Saturday.
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Working around bats, bugs and dripping silver balloons, dancers overtake New York CityÂs public places.
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Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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Amsterdam will get a theme park  dedicated to chocolate and inspired by Roald Dahl&#039;s children&#039;s  book &quot;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,&quot; city officials and  entrepreneurs said on Thursday.
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Saturday night and thrill-seekers from around the world crowd the streets of Amsterdam's red-light district ready to binge on sex, drugs and alcohol.
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It&#039;s springtime in Coney Island, with all the familiar signs of the coming tourist season: The beer flows at Ruby&#039;s on the boardwalk, a help-wanted sign rests outside Nathan&#039;s Famous, stuffed animals appear in the cramped arcades.
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AMSTERDAM, Jan. 19 -- Instead of selling sex, Amsterdam is trying to sell sexy.
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Nifty Icebergs, released by global warming from the icy embrace of Antarctica, have surprised scientists by playing host to many forms of life.â¦
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The Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, the institution's resident chamber music ensemble, put on an adventurous program on Friday night.
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OSLO, Norway - The brazen daylight theft of Edvard Munch's renowned masterpiece "The Scream" left Norway's police scrambling for clues and stirred a debate across Europe over how to protect art if thieves are willing to use deadly force to take it.    Some expressed fears that works of art are in increasing danger from violent raids - unless, as Norway's deputy culture minister put it, "we lock them in a mountain bunker."   Armed, masked robbers stormed into Oslo's Munch Museum in broad daylight on Sunday, threatening an employee with a gun and terrifying patrons before they made off with a version of Munch's famous painting "The Scream" and another of his masterpieces, "Madonna."   A day after the theft and despite many tips, police said they have no suspects, no trace of the paintings and no theory on a motive...
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The Metropolitan Museum's show is a sumptuous assemblage of fur and other animal products used to keep humans warm.
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Travel: Gemma Bowes discovers that a night in a Swiss igloo is pretty hot stuff
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About 3,000 polar bears live around the Arctic Barents Sea off northern Europe, according to a first census on Thursday that sets a benchmark to judge bears' vulnerability to pollution and melting ice.
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Zoo elephants swaying back and forth,  polar bears swimming in endless circuits and manic monkeys  grooming themselves to baldness.
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Saturday night and thrill-seekers  from around the world crowd the streets of Amsterdam&#39;s  red-light district ready to binge on sex, drugs and alcohol.
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Two large trucks with police escorts flashing their lights rumbled up to the world's largest aquarium early Friday with its newest residents &#151; two whale sharks that had made an 8,000-mile journey from Taiwan.
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Couples in Amsterdam are writing out   their dreams of passion for the chance to spend a night in a   small car fitted with a bed and hoisted up on poles.