In less than one year, the number of houses, rooms or apartments rented out via Airbnb by property owners in Belgium nearly doubled, from 5,500 to 10,000. That's according to new figures from the website Inside Airbnb, which sources data from publicly available information on the Airbnb site. About...

Continuing a tradition of innovation that included insect spreads and ugly veggies, Delhaize supermarket has come up with a new way of avoiding food waste. About 185,000 tonnes of food is discarded by consumers every year in Belgium, much of it because of the law that requires supermarkets to bin...

Belgium's Centre for Religious Art and Culture (CRKC) on Monday reported an increase in the number of thefts in Belgian churches and chapels. Since June, the federal police department in charge of art theft received more reports of church robberies than usual. The phenomenon occurs in all of the...

We asked Robin, 25, from Antwerp how much she earns and how she spends it. What do you do for work? I’m a sales and office co-ordinator and also the personal assistant to the CEO at an SME in Antwerp. I earn €1,550 net per month. Do you like your job? A ton! The work is interesting. I have a good...

Brussels police are protesting today in front of the police station in Rue des Palais . The action comes after it was announced that the officers would have to perform traffic duties from 1 September without the accompaniment of an armed colleague. Since the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and...

Silvio Aquino, one of the brothers at the head of what is alleged to be one of the country’s biggest crime families, was shot dead on Thursday on an industrial estate in Opglabbeek, Limburg, days before the trial against the family on drugs charges was due to resume in Hasselt. According to police...

A Belgian radio presenter is suspected of scamming more than 1,000 European hotels for a total of more than €400,000, report the Sudpresse newspapers. Rainer K. of Eupen, Liège province, phoned or emailed hotels with an interesting proposal: The hotels could advertise for free on his radio station...

An Antwerp diamond dealer defrauded KBC bank of €63 million, the bank has alleged. The man, Erez D, is now thought to be living in Israel. KBC made the complaint in a sworn statement delivered to the Israeli authorities. Starting in 1986, the statement alleged, Erez D built up debts worth €30...

On Brussels' Place Sainte-Catherine on Sunday, between 100 and 200 people gathered for a picnic protest against the new terraces there, reports brusselnieuws.be. The picnic was an initiative of the Free 54 movement, which aims to protect the public character of the square. The modest turnout was...

The Belgian music market grew considerably in the first six months of this year, by 5.8% to nearly €50 million, reports Het Laatste Nieuws based on a press release from the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA Music). The industry attributes the growth to the popularity of online music streaming...