Two workers were killed in an accident in Ypres, West Flanders, yesterday, when a shell dating back to the First World War exploded. Two other men were injured in the blast, one of them seriously. The shell had been uncovered days before during building works. When the workers tried to remove it...

Sven Luckermans, the travel blogger behind "Mr. Good Life", made a list of six things that foreigners do that annoy Belgians. “My recent trip to New York and Mexico City reminded me of some of the wonderful pitfalls or misconceptions people from all over the world have about Belgium and its...

Belgium's rail network manager Infrabel has plans to install thermal cameras along the Belgian railway network in order to detect people walking along the tracks. "The cameras will be placed where suicides and suicide attempts occur frequently," Minister Jean-Pascal Labille told Het Nieuwsblad ...

Beginning in the summer of 2015, Belgium’s largest fair, the Sinksenfoor in Antwerp, will be located along the deSingel motorway in the Borgerhout district instead of at its traditional home along the docks. The month-long fair has been the source of much controversy since residents living in...

American President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in Brussels on Wednesday, March 26. He will visit the headquarters of the European Union, NATO and the Belgian government. His plans are to meet with Commission President José-Manuel Barroso and European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy...

Restaurants in Brussels serving up real slice of Belgian pie For saying it's the Belgian capital as much as it is the European one, finding authentic Belgian food in Brussels is not as easy at it should be. That’s because knowing which Brussels restaurants offer a real Belgian dining experience...

May 5 marks the start of a major restoration project for several facades on Brussels’ most famous square, the Grand Place. First, house numbers one to seven will be restored, taking around 190 days to complete. The next 90 days will be devoted to house numbers 34 to 38. During the project, the...

By the year 2100 Belgium will face severe flooding, skyrocketing costs due to the rising sea level and serious loss of groundwater resources. These and other startling predictions are in a leaked draft of the latest UN climate report, not due for release until later this month. Not only Belgium,...

The eight bookshops across Belgium that were known as De Slegte before being taken over by the Dutch chain Polare will revert back to their original name and be run by the original family owners, headed by Jan Bernard de Slegte. De Slegte was founded in Rotterdam at the turn of the 20th century,...

Flanders’ housing minister Freya Van den Bossche has announced new measures aimed at helping renters find affordable accommodation. Based on the first results of the Housing Survey, the government, said Van den Bossche, has to do more to assist people in the rental sector. As a first step, a new...