Since March 31, the rules governing personalised number plates have been relaxed. The vehicle registration service, DIV, has already received 986 requests for a personalised number plate since the new rules came in. In the past, personalised number plates had to start with the number 9, but the...

More than seven out of ten Belgians say they are in favour of renewable energy as the way forward after the closure of the last Belgian nuclear power plants in 2025, according to a survey conducted by the IPSOS market research company. Respondents to the survey say that they support renewable...

In an interview with Flemish newspaper De Tijd , the chair of the Association University of Leuven (KU Leuven) stated that the average teacher in Dutch-speaking schools is conservative and is insufficient at an intellectual level. “Education reform will never succeed if the next education minister...

A group of Chinese farmers have developed a very particular hobby: give life to the creatures they see in the cartoon series and now feature film Transformers. By recycling old automotive body parts, the farming group produces giant robots that are almost-identical replicas of the original toys...

Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo met with families of Belgian and Rwandan victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda on Sunday morning before they flew to Kigali where they will mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide today, April 7, accompanied by an official Belgian delegation. In total, 10 Belgian UN...

One of the eggs of a pair of falcons nesting in St. Michael and St Gudula cathedral, Brussels, started to hatch on Saturday, according to the website Falcons for Everyone. “Yes, one of the little falcons has well and truly started to dig its way out of its shell. We can clearly hear it chirping...

Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Flanders yesterday for the second year running. It was the third time he has won Belgium’s most gruelling cycle race. The Swiss cyclist pulled ahead with a powerful surge at the finish that edged him over the line a fraction of a second ahead of three chasing...

The contraceptive pill is the Best Belgian Invention, according to listeners to the Dutch-speaking radio station Radio 1. The pill won the title with 38% of the votes. Other inventions on the shortlist were the jpeg compressed photo image, the Mercator projection (which portrays the three-...

Numbers were up dramatically at the weekend at Pairi Daiza park, Hainaut province, all thanks to its two giant pandas from China. Although the park was not running at full capacity, staff said they had seen far more weekend visitors than normal and that visitors had been able to admire the pandas...

A popular spring rendezvous for flower lovers is the annual Floralia at Groot-Bijgaarden. The castle grounds and their blaze of colour are open from April 4 to May 8. The 14-hectare grounds, just north of Brussels, are carpeted with more than 400 varieties of tulips and numerous other blooms,...