The body of a man has been found by mechanics at Brussels Airport in an aircraft belonging to Brussels Airlines. The man had hidden in the landing gear of the flight from Dakar in Senegal. He had no identification in his possession, the prosecutor for Halle-Vilvoorde said. An autopsy will be...

After the dazzling success of last year’s edition, culinary festival Gin + Kok takes over the Grote Markt in Blankenberge for the second time around. The name is a reference to the day’s alcoholic preference and live cooking programme, brought to you by 27 local chefs and professional mixologists...

Several Brussels metro stations on Tuesday evening were flooded due to the heavy rainfall, writes Bruzz. A number of photographs quickly appeared on Twitter, showing travellers wading barefoot through the water at Erasmus metro station. In Delta station, the water rose about 10cm high at the...

The signal box closest to the site of the deadly train accident on Sunday night in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse was not equipped with the safety system TBL1 +, which would have prevented the accident, write the Mediahuis newspapers. After the train accident in Buizingen in 2009, the entire Belgian rail...

Last summer, Beursschouwburg’s rooftop terrace in the centre of Brussels welcomed scores of urban dwellers starved for some late-night entertainment under the open sky. With a selection of music and movie screenings, and of course drinks, the Out Loud! festival proved to be a fun way to spend those...

More than one-quarter of children in Brussels (25.7%) and nearly one in five children in Wallonia (18.5%) are growing up in a household where no one works, the highest figures in Europe, writes De Tijd . The newspaper published the figures based on data from the Flemish public employment service...

It had me puzzled, to be honest. Sprout to be Brussels, it said on a revolving advertising sign in a Brussels metro station. Now, I’m used to Belgians using English expressions that I don’t understand. An invitation to a “walking dinner” is never going to make any sense. But this was even more...

The City of Brussels has announced it will not place any big screens for the European Championship (Euro 2016) set to kick off later this week. Several different locations within the Brussels-Capital Region, however, will be showing the matches on the big screen. The King Baudouin Stadium will open...

Robert D., the father of the driver who was killed in the train accident in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse on Sunday night, will file a complaint, he says in Het Laatste Nieuws , the Sudpresse newspapers and La Dernière Heure . "I am taking this to court. Because I want to thoroughly investigate what...

The number of working non-EU citizens in 2015 was the lowest in Belgium compared to all the EU countries, writes Het Laatste Nieuws , according to figures from Eurostat. About 59.4% of Belgium's non-EU citizens between the ages of 20 and 64 in 2015 were working or looking for a job, compared to 74...