Three people were injured on Monday evening in a machete fight in Brussels North station. None of the victims' injuries are life-threatening, and the perpetrator has been arrested, according to La Dernière Heure. The fight broke out in the station, and one victim received two machete blows in the...

A proposal by Bruno De Lille of opposition party Groen to close the Brussels tunnels within 10 years has been described as “too ridiculous for words” by the motoring organisation Touring. The Brussels tunnel network has been experiencing problems, with the Leopold II tunnel closed recently because...

Fidèle, the most photographed inhabitant of Bruges, has passed away. He was 12 years old. Fidèle was a Labrador retriever who could be seen, weather permitting, lying in an open upstairs window of the B&B Côté Canal. The establishment backs onto the Groenerei canal, which is full of boats...

Residents living near the site of the new Ikea store in Hasselt, now Belgium’s largest Ikea outlet, have complained about traffic chaos on the first weekend of the store’s opening. A stalled vehicle on Saturday caused a major tailback, which police solved by removing a barrier put in place to...

Belgium's annual carnival celebrations kicked off in Aalst at the weekend with the 88 th edition of the famous parade, featuring floats and costumes depicting current events from around the world. No subject was off limits for the float builders, who poked fun at everything, from the war in Syria...

Brussels Airlines has revealed plans to honour the surrealist art of Belgian painter René Magritte this spring. The airline provided a sneak peek via Instagram and Twitter, with a teaser image of one way the company might unite its aircraft with Magritte's art, writes Brusselnieuws. Brussels...

About 29% of the Belgian internet users last year had issues with security, and 20% had a computer virus, according to Eurostat, the statistical service of the European Union. The number of Internet users in Belgium to be affected by a computer virus in 2015 is slightly better than the European...

The Sonian Forest and all of the parks in the Brussels-Capital Region are closed from Sunday evening due to the severe weather forecast, announced the region's environmental organisation Bruxelles Environnement. The weather conditions will be reassessed on Wednesday. Due to the forecast storms this...

The Belgian singer Eddy Wally passed away on Saturday at the age of 83 due to the effects of a brain haemorrhage. The artist from Zelzate, in East Flanders, was able to say goodbye to his loved ones, according to his manager. The self-proclaimed “Voice of Europe” had suffered health problems since...

The federal government is planning an appeal against a ruling by the European Commission that a tax plan for multinationals counted as illegal state aid. The Commission’s decision would mean the government having to ask for €700 million back from the companies involved. The problem has been created...