Pipe-smoking detective Jules Maigret will return to British bookstores this autumn, with Penguin publishing all 75 books in Belgian author’s Georges Simenon’s series over as many months, writes The Bookseller's Stacey Bartlett . Starting with Pietr the Latvian, the first in the series, on November...

The European Union has granted Belgian chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut the right to use the first ever health claim in the history of the cocoa and chocolate industry, reports Food.be . It took seven years of research in the company’s research & development centre on the Belgian...

Belgium is taking advantage of a back-up in yields and a stable market backdrop to offload a long-awaited new 30-year bond on Tuesday, reports Reuters’ John Geddie . The new June 2045 benchmark euro bond, named OLO 71, is being marketed to investors with initial price thoughts at mid-swaps plus...

China is set to give the green light to the direct import of Belgian riding horses instead of buying them from a third country, reports China.org . According to Flemish minister-president Kris Peeters, under the current system, Belgian horses can only be transported first to the Netherlands,...

The fine arts are a known quantity in Brussels, home to dozens of internationally recognised museums and galleries. What you might not know is that the capital is also a hotbed of the functional arts: architecture, furniture, textiles and industrial design. Although less glamorous, designers are...

A Belgian teacher who had been kidnapped in Syria has returned to Belgium after he and an Italian war reporter for the Turin daily La Stampa were freed on Sunday. A few hours after their release was announced, Pierre Piccinin and Domenico Quirico landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport where they were...

A United Airlines plane en route to Brussels with more than 200 passengers returned to Chicago’s O'Hare international airport Friday because of a "suspected security concern," writes the Chicago Tribune’s Naomi Nix . United Flight 972 was scheduled to depart from O'Hare around 6p.m Friday and...

Belgium can play a bigger role in China's economic structural reform and grow economically by tapping into the Chinese market according to the Chinese ambassador to Belgium . Liao Liqiang said he was especially optimistic about the prospects of Sino-Belgian cooperation in the high-tech sector ,...

Belgium’s Pieter Devos yesterday won the CN International show jumping competition at the Spruce Meadows’ Masters tournament in Calgary, the Lethbridge Herald reports. Olympic gold medallist Steve Guerdat of Switzerland took second place riding Nasa and France’s Penelope Leprevost finished third...

Franz Ferdinand are coming back to Brussels for their biggest concert to date in the capital. The Glasgow art-rockers, who recently appeared at the Pukkelpop festival, will play Forest National (in its ‘Club’ configuration) on March 7, 2014 – almost four years to the day after their last Brussels...