Hackers took the Wallonia region's official website offline for most of Wednesday - with internet security experts warning of more attacks on public websites in the coming days. Wallonia.be was targeted by a denial-of-service attack, which involves inundating a web server with an unmanageably high...

Many restaurants in Brussels are selling customers a cheaper kind of fish than is listed on the menu, according to an investigation by the environmental organisation Oceana Europe. The organisation took 280 samples of fish served in restaurants between March and July this year for analysis at the...

Airbnb hosts in Brussels will have to adhere to a new set of rules from 2016, including obligatory registration, writes De Tijd . The new rules apply to anyone renting out rooms to tourists in the Brussels-Capital Region from next year. Airbnb hosts in Brussels will for the first time be required...

The Sewers Museum in Brussels will reopen its doors to the general public on 19 November, after a lack of resources forced the museum to close last year , only opening for pre-arranged groups since October, 2014. The museum highlights the nearly 400 km-long sewer network located under the city,...

Belgium ranks 17 th in the EF English Proficiency Index 2015, the world's largest ranking of countries by English skills. Flemings have a stronger knowledge of English than Walloons, according to the index. Sweden and the Netherlands rank 1 st and 2 nd in the list, respectively. The report...

The number of bankruptcies in Belgium fell in October for the fourth month in a row, to 870, or 17.85% fewer than the same month last year. The number of job losses as a result was down 10%. Broken up by region, the number of bankruptcies in Flanders last month was down by 18%, and in Brussels by...

Belgium's Goedele Liekens has made waves in Britain with a TV show about improving sex education. She says it’s time for our neighbours to get past the smirks and sniggers and have a meaningful conversation on the subject. Goedele Liekens has a reputation. As a sexologist, she’s already assumed to...

Where is the highest toilet in Brussels? It’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself, but the answer, according to the Atomium, is in the uppermost sphere of that celebrated monument. In the toilets of Brussels Airport you can find posters boasting: “The city’s highest toilets [95m] are in...

Drivers with foreign licence plates in Belgium caught by speed cameras almost never receive a fine in the mailbox. The prosecutor's office in Halle-Vilvoorde sees 'no point' in enforcing the fines, according to autofans.be. The prosecutor's office last year acknowledged that it could not process...

The Brussels municipality of Uccle has granted an environmental permit to diving centre Nemo 33. The multi-purpose indoor diving facility is to expand with the addition of an open-air diving pit designed to look like a water-filled quarry, a windmill, a hotel with 35 rooms and parking for about 100...