It’s not all beer and chocolate. Belgium has also turned out some of the world’s greatest athletes. Even if you don’t know a football from tennis ball, here are six names in sports you need to know. 1. Eddy Merckx (1945) Going pro in 1965, Merckx dominated the world of cycling throughout his 13-...

There are few Americans who haven’t heard of Bastogne, the strategic border town that was snowed in and surrounded by the German army in its final large-scale offensive of the war. In a desperate gamble to split the Allied armies by a surprise blitzkrieg through the Ardennes to Antwerp, Hitler...

Brussels-City council has introduced new traffic regulations in the centre of the city. The changes are initially intended to cope with extra traffic for the Winter holiday market and related activities, but parts of the changes will be maintained after Winterpret, as part of the council’s new...

A crowd of at least 2,000 bargain-hunters lined up yesterday in Brussels’ Nieuwstraat for the opening of the country’s second outlet of the Irish low-cost clothing chain Primark. Queues were already forming at 8.00 for the opening at 11.00. The new Primark store – the first is in Liège – takes up 1...

In Brussels, the majority of tweets, or messages sent via social networking service Twitter, come from the city centre, according to an update of the Twitter map of the world, created by American software developer Eric Fischer, reports brusselnieuws.be. According to the map , Brussels is Belgium’s...

There are more than 1 million company cars on Belgian roads, including taxis, vans and passenger cars. It is the passenger cars that are the biggest problem, contributing to more traffic and pollution, according to the Federation for a Better Environment, the Flemish League against Cancer and the...

With 25,306 employees in 2013, Bpost maintains its position as Belgium's largest employer, despite ending last year with 11,000 fewer domestic jobs than in 2012, according to Trends magazine’s Top 2015, Belga reports. Also known as the Belgian Post Group, Bpost is the Belgian company responsible...

One advantage that is often overlooked when making Belgium your roost for a few years – or even a lifetime, as the case may be – is easy access to one of the best, oldest and most affordable university systems in Europe. With a little extra time, and often not much money, you can study nearly...

Police in Marseilles have detained five people for questioning in connection with the shootings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last May, which left four dead. The man suspected of firing the shots, French national Mehdi Nemmouche, was arrested in Marseilles a week after the attack and is in...

A plan to create a new contemporary art museum in the canal zone in Brussels appeared to have come to an end yesterday, after state secretary Elke Sleurs said that the existing modern art collection should return to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts. The statement also signalled the end of the new Fin...