Matt Lauer visits the beautiful city of Amsterdam. If you watched yesterday Where In The World Is Matt Lauer, from Buenos Aires he gave a tip that "The people in our second destination are accustomed to being looked down on..." Surely, it's the Netherlands, the low country.

Euronext Amsterdam N.V. has taken notice of the fact that the Guernsey Financial Services Commission no longer considers Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited to be an authorized investment fund. Therefore, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets has decided to delete Carlyle from its register.

NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced the listing of Immobilière Frey on Euronext Paris yesterday.

Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the global ETF market leader, today announces the listing of 31 new iShares funds on NYSE Euronext's French market. This launch represents a new and important stage in the continued long-term development of iShares' activity in France, which offers the largest range of ETFs on NYSE Euronext's Paris market with 76 ETFs available.

NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announces the launch of a family of high dividend indices based on its European national blue chip indices: AEX, BEL 20, CAC 40 and PSI 20. This new series will be available from April 3rd 2008.

Part of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam's Asiatic art collection will meet the collection of modern sculptures from the Beelden aan Zee sculpture museum in Scheveningen. Sixty Asian sculptures, most of which are Hindu and Buddhist gods and goddesses from Indonesia, India, Pakistan and China, will enter into dialogue with work by twenty-five 20th century sculptors at the Rijksmuseum aan Zee.

On Monday 3 March 2008, Liffe will launch options on Nyrstar, which will be included in the BEL20 index after the close of the markets on that day. Each option will have 100 underlying Nyrstar shares.

The Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001 was the most dramatic expression of their mission to obliterate all "idolatrous" images from Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past. Along with the Buddhas, the Taliban destroyed 2,500 other cultural gems from Kabul's National Museum of Afghanistan.

The Annenberg Theater of the Palm Springs Art Museum will be the home of Grammy-nominated Marilyn Maye on March 7, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. Ms. Maye brings her celebrated wit and superlative singing style to the Annenberg Theater stage, accompanied by some of the finest musicians throughout the United States.

The Annenberg Theater of the Palm Springs Art Museum will be the home of two-time Grammy winner Christine Andreas (Oklahoma and On Your Toes) on February 22, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. She will be performing Love is Good…An Evening with Christine Andreas with Martin Silvestri at the Piano.

Amsterdam city council ordered escort services to obtain licenses within 6 weeks or shut down. It is one of the latest steps to tighten controls on legal prostitution.

The Palm Springs Art Museum announced today the winners of its 2008 Artists Council Juried Exhibition. The exhibition will run until March 9, 2008 and expresses the creative pulse of the local art scene through more than 50 innovative works of art. The top winners of the exhibition include: