The mother of the baby found abandoned by the side of the road by a bus driver in Sint-Truiden last month has turned herself in to the police. The baby, given the name Marie Peeters by hospital staff, was found by a De Lijn driver on 18 August. The woman had gone to a Limburg hospital at the...

Belgian dairy farmers will be able to count on a one-off contribution of about €46 million to give the industry a much needed boost. The country's pig farmers will receive about €30 million in aid. The news comes following an agreement between the agricultural organisations, distribution sector and...

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...