ANRICA DEB

Associated Press Writer
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Scientists recreate hidden Van Gogh portrait

A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.

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Dutch court voids language test for some migrants

A Dutch court punched a hole in toughened immigration restrictions, ruling an illiterate Moroccan woman cannot be required to pass a Dutch language test to join her husband in the Netherlands.

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Dutch woman dies of Ebola-like fever

A Dutch woman has died from Marburg fever, a highly contagious Ebola-like virus she is thought to have caught from bats while touring caves in Uganda, hospital officials said Friday.

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Difficult start at solar boat race in Netherlands

Forty boats sped off silently Monday in what is billed as the world's largest race for solar powered watercraft. High winds capsized several boats during a time trial qualifying round Sunday, and technical problems with the launching crane pushed back Monday's start. But all 40 qualifiers finally departed under fair skies, spokeswoman Christel Pieper of the Frisian Solar Challenge said.

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'Rembrandt Laughing' is self-portrait

The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100. But the British buyer who paid about 1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing.

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Scientists: 115-year-old's brain worked perfectly

A Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at age 115 in 2005 appeared sharp right up to the end, joking that pickled herring was the secret to her longevity.

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