The port of Antwerp has won this year’s ESPO Award by the European Sea Ports Association. The award, given for the community integration of ports, was handed over in the city hall of Brussels to port COO Christiaan De Block by EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas. This is the fifth time the ESPO...

Take advantage of the Monday public holiday to party at this Europalia event, Bozar Night , on Sunday evening until 3.00. The multicultural festival’s two major exhibitions, Indiamania and The Body in Indian Art are open from 20.00-22.00 with guides on hand to explain the works. Simultaneously, the...

The new media enterprise Mediahuis – a joint venture between Corelio and Concentra newspaper publishers – will cut 205 jobs, about 20% of the joint workforce, the company announced yesterday. At the same time, the entire editorial department of Het Nieuwsblad will move from the Corelio headquarters...

Municipal authorities in Ypres, West Flanders, are looking into a solution to the major traffic disruption caused every evening as a result of the Last Post ceremony held under the Menin Gate in remembrance of the unidentified dead of the First World War. According to city council member Philip...

The federal prosecution service has opened an investigation into two incidents of computer hacking in the services of the prime minister. One of the two incidents took place in October this year, and received a great deal of media coverage in the light of revelations about surveillance activities...

Ostend-based Jetairfly, Belgium's second-biggest airline, has decided to change the departure airport for flights to Tel Aviv from Liege to Brussels-National from summer 2014. The flight was responsible for about 40,000 passengers passing through Liege. “We don't really understand Jetairfly's logic...

Freddy Thielemans, the outgoing mayor of Brussels, is to take over as CEO of the non-profit Brussels Expo asbl, at the same salary as he now earns as Brussels mayor. The asbl runs the exhibition centre on the Heysel plateau, home to major trade shows like the Auto Salon and Batibouw, and heavily...

Surgeons of Leuven’s University Hospital have identified a previously unknown ligament in the knee. The ligament plays an important role in patients who suffered anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. ACL tears are common among athletes in sports like soccer, basketball, skiing and football...

A poisonous caterpillar native to the south-eastern United States has been found on a house plant bought by a woman from Kortenaken, Flemish Brabant. The green-and-brown coloured caterpillar is the saddleback (Acharia stimulea), the larva of an innocuous brown moth. The caterpillar was found in a...

The largest book fair in the low countries, Boekenbeurs in Antwerp, was the location for the setting of the world record yesterday for the largest number of books ever toppled in a domino chain. Organisers stood the books on end in elaborate patterns, winding the chain around the stands of the fair...