Axelle Despiegelaere, the 17-year-old Belgium World Cup fan who won a modelling contract with L'Oreal after being spotted cheering in the crowd, has been revealed as a fan of big-game hunting. Despiegelaere, whose family is from Izegem, but lives in the Tournai, was photographed cheering the Red...

Tomorrowland, the annual Boom-based electronic music festival, is pioneering a innovative bracelet for fans that will allow them to make Facebook connections with the click of a button. The idea is to skip the often fiddly step of swapping contact details in the midst of a busy festival. The...

Car use in and around Brussels fell by an average of 5.5% during a pilot scheme organized by Belgium’s three regions to measure the influence of road charging. The first report from the pilot scheme, which measured 1,000 motorists from the start of the year, revealed that they would cut back on car...

Jean-Marie Tinck, the man arrested in May on suspicion of being a member of the notorious Brabant Killers gang, has been released from prison but remains under suspicion, his lawyer said. According to lawyer Jean-Edmond Mairiaux, the court found no reason for the continued detention of Tinck, who...

It’s been on your mind for a while, or even something you've been meaning to do since you bought the place: you want to renovate your house or apartment. Like in most countries, making improvements to your home is not a simple (and definitely not a quick) task, especially when you’re dealing with...

The average employee in full-time employment in Brussels earns 18% more than someone in the same job working in Flanders, according to figures from the economy ministry. For 2012, the latest year for which figures are available, the average gross monthly income in Flanders was €3,196; in Brussels...

A new high-speed direct rail link between Brussels and Strasbourg will come into service in the spring of 2016, the French rail authority SNCF has announced. The train will travel twice a day in each direction, via Lille and Paris Charles De Gaulle airport in a trip lasting three hours and 40...

A new “homeland security” department proposed by N-VA chairman Bart De Wever to tackle the problem of jihadi fighters returning from battle in Syria would risk clashing with existing services like state intelligence and the terror risk co-ordination office, according to criminologist and security...

Three police officers have been suspended from duty accused of assaulting a man who was handcuffed and lying on a trolley in the Saint-Pierre hospital in central Brussels ( photo ). The actions of the three men, two from the Brussels-Ixelles zone and one from a federal police department, were...