At the time of the inauguration of Donald Trump, halfway across the world, about 1,000 people gathered at Place de la Monnaie on Friday afternoon for the Lights for Rights demonstration. The demonstration in Brussels was one of many happening all over the world on Friday and Saturday. The Women’s...

La Monnaie has invited contemporary Danish performance company Hotel Pro Forma, led by director Kirsten Dehlholm, to breathe new life into Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece Madama Butterfly. The three-act opera follows ill-fated young geisha Cio-Cio-San as she marries an American naval officer and...

"Intelligent bins" that send a message when they need emptying have been a success in Brussels' pedestrian zone - prompting the city council to invest in more of them. In November 2015, 18 of the solar-powered bins were installed in the city centre. Each bin uses the photovoltaic energy to compress...

La Monnaie has invited contemporary Danish performance company Hotel Pro Forma, led by director Kirsten Dehlholm, to breathe new life into Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece Madama Butterfly. The three-act opera follows ill-fated young geisha Cio-Cio-San as she marries an American naval officer and...

We’ve always known that Belgians love beer, waffles and fries. But recently we discovered that there’s something else that sets their hearts on fire. "Belgians are in love with their gas pedals," according to the Gazet van Antwerpen. The newspaper was reporting on the annual survey by the Belgian...

Who says you cannot ski in Belgium? More than 30 ski resorts are open in the south of the country this week. Cross-country and downhill ski routes can be found in in the provinces of Liège, Luxembourg, Hainaut and Namur following the heavy snowfall - up to 50cm in the Hautes-Fagnes - and widespread...

ADAM, the Art and Design Atomium Museum , is presenting a show of large-size prints of the work of Belgian photographer Johanne Verbockhaven taken in north-west Iceland on a peninsula that was slowly abandoned, first by its inhabitants in the years following the second world war, and then by the US...

Anyone renting out a spare room or other property via the online booking site Airbnb will have to pay the equivalent of the tax applied to hotels starting on 1 February, Brussels minister-president Rudi Vervoort has announced. On that date, responsibility for hotel tax shifts from the 19...

Member of the Brussels’ parliament, Arnaud Verstraete of opposition party Groen, has filed a case with a justice of the peace calling on the Capital-Region to make public all agreements and contracts relating to the construction of the new national football stadium at Heysel. “This has all the...

One in three of all salaried employees in Belgium is suffering from symptoms of chronic stress, according to a study carried out by the University of Leuven for the social research institute Hiva. The study looked at 2,500 workers in 2015 and found that exactly 33% regularly suffered from stress...