NEWS OF THE WORLD

NETHERLANDS

TTouristsit are beingbi rippedid offff ini Amsterdam’s famous floating flower market.

A new report from the Royal General Bulb Growers’ Association says only 1 percent of bulbs sold to consumers actually end up flowering.

“The probe showed that there is chronic deception of consumers,” the group concluded. The matter has been referred to an official Dutch consumer-protection agency.

CHINA

Dreamworks’k newest film, “Abominable,” has run into hot water in Asia for featuring a map of China with the infamous “ninedash line.”

The dashes have been used on Chinese maps to demarcate their control over a vast swath of the South China Sea. Regional neighbors and the United Nations have hotly disputed China’s claims.

The film has now been banned in Vietnam, while the Philippines is demanding the map be removed.

RUSSIA

An oasisi off ddandelions,dli poppies, and daisies has been discovered in Siberia, just 1,043 miles from the North Pole.

The dense vegetation was discovered this summer during an expedition to the area by Tomsk State University. The new life has sprung up as permafrost in the area has been melting, and was a surprise to the researchers.

SPAIN

Thousandsd off deaddd fish are washing ashore on a beach in southern Spain and the reasons are unclear.

Initial thoughts that waters around the Mar Menor lagoon in Murcia were contaminated by sewage or E-coli were ruled out.

Now investigators say the cause could be unusually large rainfall in September, which disrupted the local ecology.

Local authorities say the lagoon is in “critical condition.”

AUSTRALIA

The body of a murder victim will be exhumed more than 70 years after his death.

The person, known only as “Somerton Man,” has never been identified and his death is one of the most infamous unsolved cases in Australian history.

Investigators hope DNA testing could finally solve the case.