Three dockworkers who died while cleaning out the hold of a ship in the Waasland harbour in Beveren at the weekend were the victims of toxic gases created by the coal the ship was carrying, the East Flanders prosecutor’s office has announced. The three men, all experienced dockworkers in their 50s...

Belgian daily De Morgen has won the World's Best-Designed Newspaper award. The annual Society for News Design (SND) contest this year selected De Morgen as the winner from more than 200 entries. SND, an international organisation for news media professionals and visual communicators, chose four...

The British-Belgian co-production The Missing has been nominated for three Bafta awards, including Best Actor (James Nesbitt), Best Supporting Actor (Ken Stott) and Best Drama Series. The BBC TV series was shot in Brussels and Huy and also features Belgian actors, including Titus De Voogdt (22nd of...

The coastline between De Panne and Ostend could be flooded by 2100 in response to rising sea levels, according to a report by a team of Belgian architects. This radical scenario is the most extreme of four options proposed in a study called Metropolitan Coastline 2100. The aim of the report was to...

Belgians spend on average 5.9 hours per week cooking. Women in Belgium spend more time preparing meals than men, with an average of 6.7 hours, compared to 4.8 hours for men, according to a study by market research organization GfK. For the study in 2014, GfK surveyed more than 27,000 people in 22...

Belgian theatre director Ivo Van Hove received the Laurence Olivier Award for best director during a ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London yesterday . The British theatre prize, named after actor Laurence Olivier, is one of the most prestigious awards in the theatre world. Van Hove’s...

It’s all the fun of the fair as circus festival Hopla! rolls into town for its annual spring rendezvous, 13 to 19 April. The 9th edition of the event is setting up its big top in Place Sainte-Catherine. Aimed at all ages, the programme includes shows by professional companies plus circus skill...

A football player in Belgium’s first-class Jupiler Pro League earns an average annual salary of about €253,586 before taxes, writes Het Nieuwsblad. The amount includes basic wages, group insurance premiums, holiday pay and a 13th month. Anderlecht players are the highest paid in the league by far,...

The Free University of Brussels (VUB) has reprimanded Willem Elias, dean of the psychology faculty, for a Facebook post he made in the immediate aftermath of the death of former socialist politician Steve Stevaert last week. Stevaert’s body was found in a canal near Hasselt on the same day that he...

The first two peregrine young of the season hatched this week from their nest in the tower of the St. Michael and St. Gudula's Cathedral in the centre of Brussels. As every year, a pair of peregrine falcons takes up nest in the tower. This year’s pair, a mother and her son, has produced two young,...