If it's the last 10 days of the year it's time for the Be Film Festival , the round-up of the best Belgian films of the year plus a few sneak previews. A total of 40 shorts and full feature films will be screened at the Cinematek and Bozar - and this year the festival opens twice, with a party on...

Staff at Marks and Spencer in Brussels walked out on strike on Wednesday morning, before bailiffs were called in to break up the picket line. Shoppers were handed flyers by employees who face losing their jobs after M&S announced last month that its Brussels store was among at least 50...

Euro 2016, Pokémon Go and Salah Abdeslam were among the top trending Google search terms in Belgium this year, the site has announced. The Pokémon craze attracted more Google searches from Belgian web users in 2016 than Brexit or the US elections. Prime minister Chrles Michel remains the most...

Brussels public transport operator STIB has handed out free hot-dogs to passengers in a new safety campaign about the dangers of blocking metro doors. The giveaway at Gare Centrale on Tuesday lunchtime was part of a new series of posters warning commuters "not to end up a sausage" by squeezing on...

This holiday season take advantage of Brussels' preeminent position in the world of circus and street theatre arts for a high-level spectacle of unicycle acrobats, juggling, trapeze, comedy, aerial rope, Chinese mast, Cyr wheels, soap bubble juggling, close up magic and more, punctuated by fine...

Tintin, the fictional globe-trotting boy reporter beloved by millions, is currently the guest of honour at Train World , the rail museum in Schaerbeek that opened last year. In the museum’s first temporary exhibition, the role that trains played in many Tintin comic-strip albums is explored through...

The Planckendael animal park in Mechelen has confirmed rumours that not only is elephant Kai-Mook pregnant, so is her big sister, May Tagu, and her mother, Phyo Phyo. The pregnancy of Phyo Phyo was announced just this morning. All three elephants are well known in Belgium because Kai-Mook, now aged...

Passing your driving test is a rite of passage. Not only is it a passport to freedom in your free time, it’s essential for many jobs. If you need to learn to drive in Belgium but are accustomed to the rules of the road in another country – and maybe don’t speak the language – it becomes a bigger...

Two family members of a victim of the 22 March bomb attacks in Brussels and Zaventem have started a non-profit organisation to bring other relatives of victims together. The pair say such an organisation is necessary because of the administrative confusion surrounding the aftermath of the attacks...

Starting next month, Boeing 747s will not be allowed to fly over the Brussels-Capital Region due to new regulations governing noise limits. That will put 3,500 jobs at risk, Geert Keirens, CEO of Air Cargo Belgium, told the Flemish business magazine Trends. The new rules limit the maximum noise...