Born in Harlem, New York, into an impoverished Jewish family, William Klein dropped out of university and moved to Paris in 1948, where he pursued work as a photographer and graphic designer. Though the City of Light would become his adopted home, his daring artistic approach soon caught the eye of...

What is your job? I describe myself as a social media coach and consultant. That is to say that I help companies to market themselves well on social media or to improve their social media marketing. That ranges from giving them strategic advice and brainstorming workshops to helping with...

The Brussels secretary of state for equal opportunities has created an online database of female experts in a variety of subject areas. Bianca Debaets has worked with the gender-equality non-profit Amazone to create expertes.brussels , which brings together female experts for consultation by the...

University of Leuven (KU Leuven) rector Rik Torfs has pleaded for a collaboration with UK universities following Brexit. In the Times Higher Education magazine, he has proposed setting up associations of British and European universities. The UK is part of many EU research programmes, and it is...

The music you hear while you eat has an influence on how the meal tastes, according to a researcher in Flanders. The study was part of the PhD research of Felipe Reinoso Carvalho of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and Free University of Brussels (VUB), working with a professor from Oxford...

The federal government is preparing an app to make it easier to report sexual harassment on the street, minister for equal opportunities Elke Sleurs has announced. Figures show that only three incidents were reported in Brussels from May 2015 to May 2016, all of them dropped by the prosecutor’s...

Three out of four jobs created during the current federal government’s term of office were in large companies in the private sector, according to the state service for social security ONSS. The figures cover 83,742 new jobs created between the third quarter of 2014 and the same period in 2016...

People who post hate messages on social media risk being prosecuted, according to federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon. The announcement comes after it was confirmed that Kerim Akyil, the Limburg-born son of second-generation Turkish parents, was one of the victims of the New Year’s Eve...

A food bank in Mechelen is to end its operations because people are becoming “too choosy” to eat donated food, organisers said. Volunteers with the non-profit SOS Hulpbetoon, which has been running for 35 years, organise food parcels for about 95 families every week. In the case of many of the...

The multimedia chain MediaMarkt is to take over the electronics business of supermarket Makro, which has six branches in Belgium. Makro announced last year that it would scrap 505 of its 3,000 jobs in Belgium. Some of those jobs may now be rescued by MediaMarkt. The announcement followed a reported...