Beauty queen gets booed

Alizee Poulicek, who is from a French-speaking part of Belgium, got booed by the audience in the Miss Belgium 2008 contest when she didn't understand a question in Dutch. And while this didn't stop Poulicek from being awarded the Miss Belgium crown

8 Foot Lego Man invades Zandvoort

Workers at a drinks stall fished the giant, smiling "LEGO" man from the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort. They dragged the 2.5-metre (8-foot) tall model with a yellow head and blue torso from the sea and placed it in the sand, where crowds quickly gathered around it.