After the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels removed several paintings last week due to leaks in the roof, now Brussels' Cinquantenaire Museum is showing signs of the same problem. The issue has cost the museum millions in sponsorship money, which can only be released once the museum is leak-...

Visitors to the centre of Brussels on Monday were treated to a rare sight: a dromedary. The one-humped camel was featured in the music video for a new song by Niger band Kel Assouf, writes Brusselnieuws. The singer of the group, Anana Harouna, chose to shoot the music video in the centre of...

The elaborate festivities celebrating Chinese New Year in central Brussels this weekend were the beginning of a year-long series of events commemorating 45 years of diplomatic relations between China and Belgium. But interchanges between the two peoples go much farther back: in 1679 Father...

The number of EU citizens acquiring Belgian nationality increased by 50% between 2009 and 2013 to more than 8,000 a year. During that time, Bulgarian, Slovak, Dutch and Spanish applications for Belgian citizenship more than doubled, while requests from Romania tripled. Since January 2013, the...

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...