The life expectancy of a person born in Belgium is 218 days longer than it was two years ago, the Federal Public Service Economy has announced. Today the average Belgian lives to be 81.07 years old, according to De Standaard. Over the past 20 years life expectancy has risen sharply in Belgium, on...

A study by The Lancet Oncology confirms that in the last 10 years 200,000 cases of uterine cancer have been avoided by using the birth control pill. British researchers compared 27,000 women across 36 countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa who had been diagnosed with cancer of the...

Running is one of the most accessible sport activities one can do in Brussels. All you need to start is a pair of shoes, serviceable weather and some vague sense of direction. This ease of entry might explain much of its wide popularity – Brussels is home to several running clubs, including the...

Asylum facilities are full, says the Belgian Immigration Office, which yesterday turned away 50 asylum seekers, many of whom were then forced to sleep in the street and public parks. Asylum seekers, who can usually enter one of the asylum facilities the same day they register with the Immigration...

In July, 52,669 Belgian drivers were picked up by France’s automated speeding detectors along its highways, according to mobility organisation Touring. That makes 1,700 caught per day, say De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad. The number is lower than the previous year, when some 60,000 Belgians were...

The air quality in African and Asian cities with more than 10 million inhabitants is “alarmingly bad”, according to a Ghent University (UGent) project in which international students collected air samples in their home countries. Students of the Master’s degree in environmental sanitation took...

The centre for molecular modelling at Ghent University (UGent) and the University of California in Berkeley have developed a new technology to extract carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from exhaust gases. The universities focused on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology that captures exhaust...

Despite considering drones intrusive technology, the privacy commission has given the minister of mobility Jacqueline Galant the go-ahead on her drone regulation proposal. From a privacy standpoint, drones are more invasive than fixed camera or conventional aerial surveillance, says the commission...

The number of women who choose to freeze their egg cells is on the rise, according to professor Dominic Stoop of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital Brussels. This year, 30 per cent more women froze their eggs this year than in 2014, the fertilisation expert told De...

What do you do for work and what do you earn? For 11 years, I’ve taught courses at the Hotel School in Ghent. Step by step, we lead the students through the process of becoming professionals. I teach company management, hotel organisation, restaurant techniques and practices. This means lots of...