Insurance companies look set to pay out a total of €340 million in compensation to around 142,600 customers following the hailstorms that rained down on Belgium during the Pentecost holiday weekend, announced the insurance federation Assuralia. According to the insurance sector federation’s first...

Some 66% of Belgian workers can be reached on holiday to answer work-related questions and 16% will deal with work queries even if they are not remotely urgent, a study by the HR company Securex has found. According to the study, more and more employees are making themselves available to deal with...

Belgians Yanina Wickmayer and Alison Van Uytvanck both qualified for the second round of the Wimbledon tennis tournament on Monday. Wickmayer, seeded 54th in the world, defeated the 17th seed Australian Samantha Stosur, 6-3, 6-4. She was watched from the stands, as at Roland Garros, by the Belgian...

Belgium secured a place in the last 16 of the World Cup on Sunday evening, after beating Russia 1-0. Fans waited a long time to see the winning goal which came only in the last few minutes of the game: substitute Divock Origi smashed a goal in after a neat pass from Eden Hazard with three minutes...

Railway police have begun a campaign designed to discourage people from crossing or walking along railway tracks by targeting 80 favourite short-cuts. Over three days last week, inspectors carried out visible and covert checks on places where trespassing is more common, as well as level crossings...

Around 250 customers and supporters of the Delhaize Verhaeren store in Schaerbeek demonstrated against its planned closure on Saturday evening. The shop is one of 14 stores nationwide selected for closure under a recently announced restructuring plan that will also see 2,500 staff redundancies...

Around 350 bikers of the motorcycling federation Fédération Belge des Motards en Colère (FBMC) blocked traffic in central Brussels at the weekend in order to draw attention to the ‘carnage’ on the roads and to educate drivers about the need to share roads in a responsible and respectful fashion...

The Council of State has overturned the award of a contract for the first phase of Europea, the conference and leisure complex (formerly known as Neo) planned by the City of Brussels for the Heizel plateau. The contract was awarded to the consortium Unibail and the case brought by competing bidder...

Competing with the World Cup this weekend, to the relief of many, is Fête de la Musique . The annual solstice musical fiesta reflects artistic and musical diversity in Brussels and Wallonia with around 700 concerts and performances in the open air and all free! Celebrating its 30th edition, the...

Marcel Brühwiler, the head of UBS Belgium, was detained by Brussels police at his home on Thursday on suspicion of money laundering, serious tax fraud and membership of a criminal organisation. Brühwiler, a Swiss national, was held and questioned by the authorities for 12 hours. The Brussels...