The temporary check-in installation at Brussels Airport is working perfectly, with no problems reported since operations started on Sunday, an airport spokesperson said. On Sunday, three flights landed and three took off. On Monday the number had gone up to 25, and today will see about 100, the...

Brussels Airlines on Tuesday unveiled its third plane with a special design: the Red Devils aircraft, created in honour of the Belgian national football team. The aircraft, nicknamed “Trident”, joins the airline's fleet of custom-designed aircraft, which include one plane decorated with an image of...

Anthony Vaccarello of Brussels has been named the new creative director of the legendary fashion house Yves Saint Laurent. Vaccarello previously served in the same post at Versus, a label owned by Versace. The 36-year-old with Sicilian roots was born and raised in Brussels and studied fashion at...

The drone lifts off the ground, hovers for an instant, then zooms off between the spires that frame the town hall and over the rooftops of the redbrick apartments that dot the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek. It flies over the neo-Gothic Saint-Servais church and Lehon square, before swooping down to...

The federal government has lodged an appeal against a ruling by the European Commission that ordered the government to recover up to €942 million in tax advantages granted to multinationals. The Commission judged the tax breaks to be state aid to industry, which is illegal. The ruling concerned so-...

Starting with just a projector and a screen under a tent in Brussels’ Maximiliaan Park, Cinemaximiliaan is expanding its activities throughout Belgium and internationally, with sub-groups emerging in Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt and Liège. Described by its creators Gawan Fagard and Gwendolyn Lootens as...

It’s one thing to be half-eaten by a bear and left by your comrades for dead; the thing that really annoys Leonardo DiCaprio, as we know now, is the state of the planet. So he was the obvious mascot for a new campaign against rubbish in the streets, launched by one Adel on Instagram. With his...

The new train tunnel Schuman-Josaphat officially opened today after nearly seven years of construction. The 1,250 metre-long rail line links the eastern edge of Brussels with the city centre. The new connection is important for improving mobility in and around the capital, writes Brusselnieuws. The...

So far, more than 2,500 Belgians have reported an offshore company in their tax return for fiscal year 2015, according to the FPS Finance. The so-called 'low-tax legal arrangement' is a popular way for companies to avoid Belgium's high tax rates. Since 2013, however, Belgians are obliged to report...

Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur ( pictured ) will interrogate the city's police chief about the 99 administrative arrests made in front of the Bourse on Saturday, because the mayor suspects that the agents acted too strictly, write De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad . Hundreds of leftist protesters...