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The water levels of Dutch rivers are rising, but safety is not at risk. That reports Rijkswaterstaat Thursday afternoon. However, a bridge on the Stuwweg in Maastricht is in danger of collapsing after it was seriously damaged last night by a houseboat that broke loose.Also read 'Building 400 homes in floodplains: who came up with that?The incident with...

Using electrical brain stimulation, scientists can temporarily make people more sensitive to hypnosis. That is remarkable, because until now how susceptible someone is to hypnosis seemed to be an unchangeable characteristic. American scientists made their subjects more hypnotizable for an hour with a few minutes of targeted brain stimulation. they describe in the scientific journal Nature Mental...

It is one of his most famous photos. A white girl, she must be about eight years old, dressed in a chic dress and neatly finished cardigan, sits pontifically on a bench with the text 'Europeans only', so well known in South Africa, on it. Just behind her, but not on the couch, sits a...

With its not always predictable forces, the high tide knocked a houseboat against the bridge over the Stuwweg in Maastricht in the night from Wednesday to Thursday. The strong current continues to pound the ship and a pillar of the bridge on Thursday afternoon, which has largely come loose from the road surface above. The...