Amsterdam  - Dutch Queen Beatrix and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev are due to attend a festive opening Friday of the new renovated Dutch subdivision of Russia's Hermitage museum.

The exhibition now showing at the Amsterdam Hermitage, to be open to the public starting Saturday, will be of Russian Court life in the 19th century.

The Russian Hermitage in St Petersburg is one of the biggest museums in the world, comprising more than 3 million artifacts, many of which are kept in storage due to lack of space.

Amsterdam  - Members of the Dutch public applauded the country's monarch, Queen Beatrix, on Monday as she arrived at a World War II memorial service, days after an attacker had ploughed into a royal event in his car killing six.

Queen Beatrix arrived with Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife Princess Maxima at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, ahead of a national WWII ceremony which commemorates the country's war dead.

Officials said that security measures had been stepped up at the site, and that snipers were in position on rooftops overlooking Dam Square, where the ceremony was to take place.

Amsterdam  - Queen Beatrix and other Dutch royals are to participate as planned in Monday night's annual World War II memorial despite the failed car-ramming attack on their open-top bus three days ago, Dutch television reported Sunday.

The ceremony in central Amsterdam will mark the queen's first public appearance since Thursday's attack on the royal family when a 38-year-old Dutch man drove his car into a crowd watching a royal procession. He intended to hit the royal bus but instead killed seven bystanders and injured 12.

Amsterdam - The car driver who killed five people when he sped into a crowd watching the Dutch monarch, Queen Beatrix, in an apparent attack on the royal family has died of his injuries, the public prosecutor confirmed Friday. Thursday's attack - which has stunned the Netherlands - was captured on film, which showed the small black car burst through a barrier at high speed, hitting 17 people, and killing three men and two women.

The driver of the car, named only as Kars T., died overnight from internal bleeding in a local hospital, the prosecutor said, confirming earlier TV reports.

Amsterdam - The driver of the car which sped into a crowd watching the Dutch Queen Beatrix, killing five bystanders, has died in hospital, TV reports said Friday. Thursday's attack - which has stunned the Dutch nation - was captured on film, as the small black car burst through a barrier at high speed, hitting 17 people, killing three men and two women.

The driver of the car, named only as Kars T., died overnight after operations in a local hospital, according to Dutch TV station NOS.

Amsterdam - A serious road accident which left at least 14 injured Thursday overshadowed a public appearance of The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix.

A black car broke through barriers, injured bystanders and crashed in to a monument in the city of Apeldoorn not far from where members of the royal family were celebrating Queen's Day.

Beatrix cancelled a ceremonial march-past which had been scheduled in memory of her mother the former Queen Juliana who died in 2004 to mark what would have been her 100th birthday.