In the build-up to its Climate Summit in New York on 23 September, the United Nations is calling attention to the climate issue around the world with fake weather reports. “Temperatures between eight and nine degrees. A fickle day with periods of rain and hail, and even thunderstorms. And be...

A rotating service of super-fast shuttle buses is to be launched at Charleroi airport, to link the country’s second airport to Charleroi station. A road link between Charleroi-Sud station and the airport at Gosselies constitutes the fastest ‘mobility’ solution to put into practice, announced the...

Leuven-based AB InBev, the world’s largest brewing group, is reported by the Wall Street Journal to be in talks with its banks with a view to preparing a takeover bid for SABMiller, its biggest competitor, now based in London. The bid is said to be worth €94.2 billion, the largest the beer industry...

The Proton payment system is going to be phased out in two stages. The facility to top up a Proton account will gradually be withdrawn from service between October 1 and December 31, 2014. From January 1, 2015, payments by Proton will no longer be allowed. Proton terminals will be withdrawn from...

The outgoing European Council president Herman Van Rompuy will be a guest speaker at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) from October 6. In his first duty for UCL, he will lead a conference called ‘L’Europe dans la tempête’. From the second semester, when he will no longer have to fulfil any...

Coming in ninth in the green jersey points classification, 22-year-old cyclist Jasper Stuyven (pictured) was a rare flash of Belgian flair in the Vuelta a España, the Tour of Spain, which ended in Santiago de Compostela on Sunday. On his first-ever grand tour, the former UCI Junior Road Race World...

With €820 per month, Julie Declerck, 24, from Bruges can afford a job she loves. What do you for a living? For the last four months, I’ve been employed by Meubis, a furniture store in Maldegem with an extensive online store. On my business card it says “Service Manager”. I answer clients’ questions...

Belgium is ready to take part in an international coalition against the Islamic State (IS), if it is so called upon, said outgoing prime minister Elio Di Rupo at the official reopening of the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels on Sunday. The museum has been closed since May 24, when a shooting...

US president Barack Obama honoured a bet set by Belgian prime minister Elio Di Rupo during the World Cup in June by sending a couple of half-cases of Samuel Adams beer to the Belgian Embassy in Washington on Friday. Before Belgium took on the US in their World Cup last 16 match, Di Rupo bet Obama "...