A flu epidemic is drawing closer, as the threshold number of cases for qualifying for epidemic status was passed this week for the first time this winter, according to the Scientific Institute for Public Health. The threshold stands at 144 consultations with a doctor for every 100,000 people. In...

Schools across Belgium are taking part in an ambitious public art project that aims to make a clay model for each of the 600,000 people who died on Belgian soil during the first world war. The project, Coming World Remember Me , will culminate in a huge outdoor installation in Ypres in 2018, which...

Irish comedian, actor and writer Tommy Tiernan ( pictured ) brings his Out of the Whirlwind stand-up show to Brussels with a performance at Bozar on Sunday night. Hear our interview with Tommy on The Bulletin's show on FM Brussel this Sunday at midday. Congratulations to Mariya Polner who was...

The Underwear Museum in Brussels will soon be partly housed at the restaurant Chez Claude in Rue de Flandre. "The collection of my good friend Jan Bucquoy fits perfectly into the redesign of my business," says owner Claude Remy, according to Brusselnieuws. It was announced in late December last...

Almost half of the country’s restaurants have increased their prices as a result of the introduction of the new smart cash register at the start of the year, according to SNI, the union of the self-employed. The government disagrees on the cause. From a poll of 528 businesses, the union found that...

Google Street View has created a new treat for virtual tourists with The Belgium Highlights tour, an overview of some of the country's most interesting sites. The new Belgium Highlights tour gives online users a chance to look around Brussels' famous shopping arcade, the Galeries Royales Saint-...

When American politician Donald Trump recently called Brussels a "hellhole", Belgian public relations expert Dries Tack saw a golden opportunity, and promptly registered the new domain name hellhole.brussels. Tack intends to develop the site into a platform for the sale of unique Brussels products...

An advert for beer that tried to overturn stereotypes about women and beer was itself guilty of stereotyping women, according to the industry regulator. The advertorial, published in various print media, set out to combat the idea that beer is exclusively a man’s drink, AB InBev argued. It went on...

A growing initiative is bringing cinema to patients in hospitals across the country. At the end of December, Cinema for All launched in its fifth hospital, and the organisation plans to add another 10 sites to its roster of participating health-care centres by the end of the year. The project was...

British citizens living in Belgium are being encouraged today to take a few minutes to register to vote ahead of a forthcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. The Electoral Commission hopes that a day of awareness raising across the world will boost the number of British...