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...

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...

Ulrich Hauschild ( pictured ) officially took over as Bozar’s new music director in January, 2013, succeeding the vastly experienced and successful Christian Renard, who had held the job for 20 years. What made the 46-year-old from Munich come to Brussels? “If you compare Bozar to other cultural...

The Brussels public transport authority MIVB has bowed to pressure from passengers and renamed one of the two stations at Simonis in the north-east of the city in Koekelberg. The metro site will now be split into stations Simonis and Elisabeth. The problem arose in 2009 with the extension of the...