More than 3,000 people marched in the neighbourhood of Brussels North on Saturday afternoon in a demonstration to show solidarity with refugees. The protesters demand that the EU Member States stop closing their borders and instead focus their energy on providing decent shelter for refugees, writes...

Last year, nearly 9,000 additional people opted for time credit, one type of leave provided by the Belgian social security system for employees in the private sector. It is the strongest increase since 2009, and brings the total number of Belgian employees using time credit up to more than 143,000...

The gorillas of Antwerp Zoo have welcomed the arrival of a what should become the new leader of the group. Six weeks after the death of Kumba, the zoo this week welcomed Matadi, a 12-year-old silverback from Howletts Wild Animal Park in Canterbury, the UK. Matadi (pictured) will not join the zoo’s...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, is coming to Brussels on 11 September to give a talk at Palais 12. The 14th Dalai Lama, whose real name is Tenzin Gyatso, travels around the world to offer his thoughts and insights on a wide range of issues of concern to...

Americans living in Belgium who want to have a say in who should represent their party in the 8 November presidential elections should act fast. The presidential primaries run until June, but this coming week could be a crucial one with "Super Tuesday" - the day in which the greatest number of...

Antwerpenaars woke up this week to two electric taxis, or e-taxis, on their streets – a first in Flanders. The taxis are part of a pilot project being carried out by environmental organisation Bond Beter Leefmilieu (BBL) and national taxi association GTL. The organisations are exploring the...

Raising a child can bring a couple closer together in many ways – including one way that’s only just been discovered by Flemish researchers. Professor Adrian Liston and his team at the University of Leuven found that the individual immune systems of two parents living together become very similar...

The young Belgian director Thomas Van Deursen is looking for money to make a documentary about Brussels, and in particular the pedestrian zone around Rue Anspach. He needs at least €3,750 to buy the equipment necessary to produce the film, an amount he hopes to raise through crowdfunding. The...

Belgian rail company SNCB is today running the first tests for wi-fi on the train. Telecoms minister Alexander De Croo and mobility minister Jacqueline Galant are on board for the test drive, together with rail boss Jo Cornu and commercial director Bart De Groote, writes De Morgen . SNCB will soon...

The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp has reported three new cases of the zika virus in Belgium. One of the cases is classified as “probable” while the other two are “certain”. About 20 people every week who have recently returned from South America, Central America or the Caribbean are...