A professor at Brussels' Dutch-speaking university VUB has been sentenced to death in Iran for espionage - prompting more than 55,000 people to sign a petition calling for his release. 45-year-old Ahmadreza Djalali, who teaches disaster medicine in Italy and in Brussels, spent seven months in...

A decision on who should stand trial for the Buizingen rail disaster - Belgium's worst in 50 years - will be made in April, prosecutors have confirmed. Nineteen people died and 162 were injured - 11 seriously - when two busy commuter trains collided head-on in the morning rush hour on 15 February...

The Council of Europe sent a mission to Belgium last week to visit Flanders’ “facility municipalities” in the Flemish periphery around Brussels. Six cities in Flemish Brabant that border the Brussels-Capital Region and are home to many French speakers are facility municipalities: Drogenbos,...

Indie pop group Bazart were the big winners at the Music Industry Awards, this week, claiming five awards. The awards round off an outstanding year for Bazart, who sing in Dutch. Their first single, “Goud”, was named single of the week in April, and their second, “Chaos”, topped several charts...

Get lost in a town with dozens of border crossings, wander through a vast rose garden, or sleep in a railway carriage. Belgium has no end of strange, secret places that not so many people know about. These 12 are worth checking out next time you have a free weekend. The secret museum The ruins of...

Belgian businesses could face a price tag of €1.6 billion if negotiations over Brexit – the UK’s exit from the European Union – prove difficult, forcing the two sides to apply World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. That is the conclusion of the first report published by the Brexit High Level Group...

The flu epidemic in Belgium for the last three weeks is intensifying, according to the latest figures from the Scientific Institute for Public Health (ISP). Having started at low-levels, the epidemic is now described as “moderate”. The official threshold to declare an epidemic stands at 140...

A group of smaller mobile phone operators, including Jim Mobile and Mobile Vikings, has issued a reaction to the decision by the European Parliament involving fixed tariffs. The tariffs for bulk data will be €7.70 per gigabyte this year, lowering to €3.50 in 2020 and to €2.50 in 2022. “The maximum...

The government of the Brussels-Capital Region is bringing together all initiatives concerning the digital sector in Digital.Brussels. Joining forces should make the capital a digital frontrunner in Europe, according to the government. The three minister responsible for implementing the new strategy...

Brussels' deepest swimming pool has opened an underwater restaurant - serving lobster, caviar and champagne from €99 per person. The Pearl, at Nemo 33 in Uccle, is a four-cubic-metre sphere, five metres below the water surface and took a year to research, build and test. "It's a kind of cocoon...