Plans to construct a giant brothel complex on the Rue d'Aerschot, the red-light district by Brussels' North Station, have been scrapped by its promoter. The plan was to build a complex of housing in the street ( pictured ) in what is at present a run-down area. The ground floor would have featured...

Secondary schools in the Brussels-Capital Region will be getting 700 tablet computers this week under the fourth phase of the multimedia plan launched by the city’s information technology minister Brigitte Grouwels. The region has already provided schools with 3,100 new computers, but this is the...

In the ice beneath the South Pole, a giant particle detector called IceCube has captured 28 neutrinos that originated on the other side of the universe. Among the international team that built and operates IceCube are physicists, engineers and computer scientists from the Free University of...

Muntpunt, the new library and information centre in downtown Brussels, has attracted 100,000 visitors since it opened in early September. About 9,000 people a week have come through the doors, three times more than the organisation expected. The building on Muntplein comprises a five-storey library...

The Grand Place in Brussels has been equipped with new atmospheric lighting consisting entirely of energy-saving LED lamps. The new lighting system was inaugurated at the weekend by federal interior minister Laurette Onkelinx and Brussels mayor Freddie Thielemans. The project was financed by...

Belgian prisons are no better than warehouses for human beings, with continuing problems including overcrowding, overworked guards and poor facilities, according to a stinging report by the Central Advisory Council for Prisons issued last week. Belgium's prisons ( pictured, Saint-Gilles in Brussels...

Maggie De Block of the liberal Open VLD party has been chosen “most popular politician” in Flanders in a poll carried out by De Morgen and VTM. The tough-talking state secretary for asylum and migration knocked previous winner Kris Peeters into second place (with 65% approval to Peeters’ 62%), with...

Next Saturday is the official inauguration of the new Flanders Field Memorial Garden. The ceremony will begin on Friday with the arrival of a Belgian naval frigate in London carrying 70 sandbags filled with soil gathered from First World War military cemeteries in Belgium. The sandbags will be...

Mechelen brewery Het Anker presented its newest drink to the public last week. It’s not a beer, but it is based on a beer: The Gouden Carolus Single Malt whisky. Distilling alcohol is in the family tradition: the Van Breedam family of millers made gin in Blaasveld from the mid-17th century until...