There are currently no planes able to land or take off in Belgium due to a power outage at air traffic control centre Belgocontrol. The cause of the failure is still unknown. Air traffic management organisation Eurocontrol announced via Twitter that there will be no air traffic in or out of Belgium...

The national rail authority SNCB has warned of severe disruption to services as a result of a strike by train drivers due to begin tonight at 22.00 and continue all day and evening tomorrow. “SNCB advises its clients to take the necessary precautions and to keep up to date during the action with...

In 2014, 23 children were placed for domestic adoption in Belgium, a decrease compared to 2013 (26) and the lowest number since 2006, writes Belga based on a report by the Flemish Centre for Adoption (VCA). The report reveals a number of noteworthy statistics, such as a halving in the number of...

The government of Flanders has set out its six priority areas for applying for EU aid under the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). Among Flanders’ concrete projects are infrastructure and mobility works at Oosterweel, the North-South link in Limburg and the expansion of the...

What line of work are you in and what does it pay? I’m a service desk engineer and lend second-line support to the help desk at a large chemical company in the port of Antwerp. This means that when problems are reported by telephone, the help desk has a half an hour to solve them. If they can’t...

“All living things continuously transform and evolve. As does humankind,” proclaims a text on the wall of the Museum for Natural Sciences in Brussels. It’s one of the fundamental tenets of science, and the basis of all biology. You wouldn’t think it could be controversial in this third millennium,...

After one of the last pay phones in the country was removed before the weekend in Mons, the last remaining booth, in the Middelheimlaan in Antwerp, was also removed on Sunday, report Belgian media. Telecom operator Proximus notes that the telephones were hardly used anymore and therefore generate...

Belgium came fourth in the Eurovision Song Contest, which aired last Saturday night live from Vienna. It was Wallonia’s turn to choose the country’s candidate, and a talent show search served up 19-year-old Loïc Nottet and his song Rhythm Inside, a fast-paced New Wave number that was a favourite...

It was a grim first round for the Belgians at the French Open with five of the eight entrants out by Monday. The two top Belgian women both made sharp exits: Yanina Wickmayer (83) lost in 6-2, 6-2 to the Ukraine’s Slina Svitolina (21), while Kirsten Flipkens (73), recovering from a thigh injury,...

A Belgian Facebook employee recently used Twitter to share some interesting figures on how Belgians use the social network, including one figure which shows that as many as 4.3 million Belgians visit Facebook every day, and most of them via a mobile device. More than 3.2 million Belgians visit...