Polish bicycle acrobat Krystian Herba on Sunday set a world record by climbing all 512 steps of the Atomium by bicycle in just 14 minutes and 4 seconds, writes Bruzz. The previous record was held by Frenchman Hugues Richard. It took him 19 minutes to climb the Atomium stairs by bike in 2013. Herba...

The federal minister for social affairs has proposed allowing students to work more flexible and longer hours. At present, students are permitted to work 50 days in the year, with a maximum of 40 hours a week in most cases, to be eligible for the lower student rate of social security charges. Last...

Fifty of Europe's brightest and best young entrepreneurs will be converging on Brussels this week to show off their latest ingenious inventions, in a new event that aims to celebrate innovation from all over the EU. Up to 1,000 visitors are expected at the first-ever Makerstown event, on Tuesday,...

Belgian taekwondo athlete Mourad Laachraoui won the final of the European Taekwondo Championship for his weight group on Friday in the Swiss Montreux. Laachraoui, the brother of one of the suicide bombers at Brussels Airport, is a candidate to represent Belgium at the Olympic taekwondo games in Rio...

From 1 September this year, 19 new schools join the list of Flemish schools authorised to offer some courses in French, English or German, bringing the total number up to 60, writes De Zondag . The schools adhere to the methodology Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), which refers to...

The Brussels police on Friday were attacked by a group of youth near Place Flagey. The officers were pelted with stones and cans, said a spokesperson for the Brussels-Capital Region in La Dernière Heure . The police reacted to a call just before 20.00 on Friday evening about a group of young people...

Suspected terrorist Mohamed Abrini – otherwise known as “the man in the hat” – has taken part in a reconstruction of the events of 22 March in Schaarbeek and at Brussels Airport. Abrini, the sole survivor of the group of three suicide bombers that detonated bombs at the airport, began the day in...

Created for Brussels European Capital of Culture in 2000, the Zinneke Parade - which takes place this weekend - has become a mainstay of the city's cultural landscape, attracting over 85,000 spectators.
 Made up of residents and artists, it highlights the rich culture of Brussels, cosmopolitan and...

The memorial site in front of the Bourse, which arose spontaneously after the Brussels terror attacks of 22 March, will be cleared on Friday, writes De Standaard . For weeks following the attacks, hundreds of people made their way to the square in Brussels city centre to express their grief, many...

LBC-NVK, the largest trade union federation within the Christian union ACV-CSC, has announced it will hold a demonstration in Brussels on 10 June to protest against the plans for the reconfiguration of the health care sector put forth by Flemish welfare minister Jo Vandeurzen. The union claims that...