Train operator SNCB collected €5.18 million in fines last year, reports Het Laatste Nieuws today. The figure has almost doubled in a year, primarily because of the intervention of a bailiff agency. “Previously, many people would laugh in our faces and refuse to pay their fines, but nowadays almost...

Belgian investment property delivered a total return of 3.6% last year – down on the 4.6% achieved the previous year, reports Property EU . With inflation at 2.1%, the result shows that the property investment market is not immune to the macro-economic environment in Belgium, according to the IPD...

Combining his skills as a youth pastor and professional athlete, Belgian polo player Horace Henriot hopes the lessons he offers this spring will stick in central Ohio, This Week’s Marla K Kuhlman reports. The 36-year-old wants to make the sport he loves available to everyone via his business, Play...

France, led by Tottenham Hotspur's Hugo Lloris (pictured) , will play a friendly with Belgium at the start of next season as the teams gear up for the final phase of World Cup qualifying. Belgium will take on Les Bleus, who won the World Cup in 1998, on August 14 at Brussels’ Roi Baudouin Stadium...

Brussels, Gare du Midi. You’ve just arrived in Belgium. You’re excited about seeing the architectural magnificence of the Grand Place; looking forward to your first chocolate-coated waffle. You stride confidently towards the metro. You put your hand in your pocket to check your passport. Shock. It’...

Five people were killed, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 injured when a tour bus plummeted off a hillside in northern Thailand after its brakes failed, according to police. Passengers said the coach had swerved several times on winding mountain roads, before it ploughed...

The parliamentary committee for legislative monitoring will, by the end of this month, set up a website where citizens can express their views on laws that should be abolished or are no longer valid or relevant, De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad report today. It is the parliamentary committee’s task...

Swedish furniture giant Ikea says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium. Spokeswoman Tina Kardum said the product had only been on sale for a month when it was pulled off the shelves on March 22. The...

There are an estimated 2,000 young girls in Belgium at risk of being genitally mutilated, reports the Gazet van Antwerpen. Most of them live in Brussels, but in Antwerp alone there are hundreds of girls at risk of being circumcised, warns the Group for the Abolition of Sexual Mutilation . According...

Figures published by motoring association VAB suggest that drivers using diesel need to do 30,000km before it starts costing less than standard unleaded petrol, reports Flanders News . A year ago, a driver using diesel had to cover 25,000km a year to benefit from the investment; two years ago the...