The contraceptive pill is the Best Belgian Invention, according to listeners to the Dutch-speaking radio station Radio 1. The pill won the title with 38% of the votes. Other inventions on the shortlist were the jpeg compressed photo image, the Mercator projection (which portrays the three-...

Numbers were up dramatically at the weekend at Pairi Daiza park, Hainaut province, all thanks to its two giant pandas from China. Although the park was not running at full capacity, staff said they had seen far more weekend visitors than normal and that visitors had been able to admire the pandas...

A popular spring rendezvous for flower lovers is the annual Floralia at Groot-Bijgaarden. The castle grounds and their blaze of colour are open from April 4 to May 8. The 14-hectare grounds, just north of Brussels, are carpeted with more than 400 varieties of tulips and numerous other blooms,...

Mark Simmonds said: “We should take this opportunity to remember the historic friendship of our two countries and the sacrifices that we shared together one hundred years ago. Edith Cavell was an extraordinarily brave woman and gave the ultimate sacrifice trying to protect injured servicemen in...

What do you do? For the last 10 years I have worked for the Army, of which the last year and a half at the Barracks in Heverlee where some 1000 military personal are stationed. Together with 5 other colleagues in the Sports Department, I attend to the physical fitness training of 600 military...

The sale of Fairtrade products in Belgium, measured by volume, increased 7.5% in 2013, bringing the total estimated value of Belgium's Fairtrade market up to €94 million. This is evident from Fairtrade Max Havelaar Belgium's annual results published earlier this week. The Fairtrade products with...

Belgian striker Christian Benteke will sit out the World Cup in Brazil this summer. The 23-year-old Aston Villa striker tore his Achilles tendon during practice yesterday and must undergo surgery. He is expected to be out of action for at least six months. Benteke quickly became a permanent fixture...

Forty percent more women in Belgium had themselves tested for breast cancer genes in the past year, according to Het Nieuwsblad and De Standaard . UZ Gent carried out 400 blood tests in 2012, compared to 600 such tests in 2013. UZ Leuven also showed an increase, from 570 women tested in 2012,...

Former Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme will leave his post as Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for a top job at Stockholm-based IDEA, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). Leterme (CD&V) was...