The Belgium federal police just released figures that show that 54 people per day are robbed on public transport . The vast majority of these robberies – over 16,000 of the about 20,000 total robberies in 2013 – occurred in the train or metro stations or on the train or metro itself. Thinking you’...

Prisoner Frank Van den Bleeken, who was due to undergo euthanasia on Sunday after serving 30 years in prison for rape and murder, will instead be transferred to a new psychiatric treatment centre in Ghent, federal justice minister Koen Geens announced yesterday. Van den Bleeken will ultimately have...

Archaeological excavations near Rue du Marché aux Herbes in the centre of Brussels have exposed cellars, wells and septic pits dating from the 13th- and 14th centuries, as well as hundreds of leather shoes, reports brusselnieuws.be. Because of its high archaeological potential, the Brussels-Capital...

More than 628,000 people visited the Atomium in 2014, the third best year for the landmark since it opened during the World Expo in 1958, reports brusselnieuws.be. The Comic Strip Museum also just closed out a record year, welcoming more than 200,000 visitors in 2014. Two-thirds of the visitors to...

Federal minister for foreign affairs Didier Reynders and minister for development co-operation Alexander De Croo set off yesterday on an official visit to Rwanda and Burundi. VRT news followed the pair as De Crew (Open VLD) told officials in Rwanda that theirs was the first country he was visiting...

The gender team at Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent) last year saw 148 new Belgian transgender patients, an all-time record and 30% more than the previous year, reports De Standaard . According to one expert, the increase may be partly due to the rising number of positive role models in the media...

Two exhibitions and a book are currently drawing attention to the close ties between the Latvian and Belgian art worlds in the 1920s and 1930s – relationships that seemed almost forgotten, at least here, due to the Second World War and the decades of Soviet occupation. Fortunately, Latvia regained...

On December 25, Brussels’ Cinquantenaire Museum shipped 349 archaeological treasures back to where they came from in Iran. Iran has since 1981 sought the return of the artefacts, many of which were removed from the country illegally, according to Iranian authorities. The Royal Museum of Art and...

The number of foreign children adopted by Belgian parents dropped by about half in the last four years, reports La Dernière Heure. In 2010, there were 394 international adoptions, compared to 213 in 2013. According to Didier Dehou, head of adoption within Belgium’s French-speaking community, the...