[Utretcht, Netherlands; April 13. Image via Getty]

[The Hague, March 15. Image via Getty]

[Rotterdam, February 3. Image via Getty]

[Amsterdam, February 2. Image via Getty]

• Possibly the most fucked-up headline we've read today: "Women given fetish degrees: A university registrar handed out forged degree certificates to black African women in exchange for spanking sessions to satisfy his kinky sexual desires, a court heard." •

"As the girls who loved Anne Frank grew up, they became women who loved Miep Gies, and who hoped that they would do what she did, if ever they were asked to." [Washington Post]

"[You don't have to] be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary." [AP, NYT]

[Mexico City, November 3. Image via Getty]

[Amsterdam, November 2. Image via Getty]

[Lodz, October, 4. Image via Getty]

[Rotterdam, September 30. Image via Getty]

[Rotterdamn, September 28. Image via Getty]

[Scheveningen, Netherlands; September 9. Image via Getty]

[Tampere, Finland; September 3. Image via Getty]

[Utrecht, Netherlands; August 24. Image via Getty]

[Opmeer, Netherlands; August 3. Image via Getty]

The notorious "Vegan Streaker" of Amsterdam, famed for crashing a TV set "wearing only string underpants and 'Stop Animal Suffering' on his bare chest" has been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack against fur-wearing Queen Beatrix. [Reuters]

[Sydney, July 16. Image via Getty]

The Netherlands. Pros: Dutch-process cocoa, legal weed. Con: bus stop ads for a gym that publicly display your weight when you sit on a bench. [AdWeek]