About one-quarter of the squatters last week evicted from the Gesú convent in Saint-Josse in Brussels – some 50 people from a total of nearly 200 – are expected later this week to move into new temporary accommodation offered by the Brussels region, housing minister Christos Doulkeridis said. The...

A 58-year-old woman from Binche has been defrauded of €26,000 because of her affection for the prime minister, Elio Di Rupo. Nicole Van Den Meerschaut met a man in an internet chat room, ostensibly named Marcel Dubois. First he borrowed money from her, claiming a banking error had denied him access...

Pop culture is a boneyard and it takes a palaeontologist to inventory it properly. Artist Floris Vanhoof is up to the task. His solo exhibition My Family’s Fossil Collection at Hectoliter showcases a generation’s worth of bric-a-brac accumulated by him and his family. You’ll see curios, slides,...

Debbie Quinn (pictured): This is our first house in Belgium and it’s our dream home. It was built in 2009 and has 3 hectares of land. We will probably downsize in the future as the house is quite big, but hopefully keep the same amount of. Property is good value in Belgium, certainly compared to in...

Former Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme ( pictured ) will remain in his post as Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for a further two years. Leterme was appointed to the prestigious Paris-based organisation in 2011 and put in charge of a...

The University College West Flanders (HoWest) has developed a lesson kit against bullying called “Re: pest”, with a 3D game for students in the first two years of secondary school. Via the simulation game, students can experience what it’s like to be in the shoes of bullies, bullied students and...

More than 40% of bakers who have been tested by the federal food safety agency this year received a warning regarding one or more aspects of food safety, according to figures from the agency. So far this year the agency has carried out 1.440 inspections, resulting in 589 warnings being issued. In...

Emergency services including civil protection forces were called to the motor museum Autoworld in the Cinquantenaire Park yesterday after white powder was discovered in an envelope sent to the museum by mail, director Sebastien de Baere said. The envelope contained two vials and two clear plastic...

More than 1,000 people gathered under the Menin Gate in Ypres yesterday for the annual ceremony to mark the end of the First World War. The event this year – one of the largest ever – was organised by the Last Post Association along with Ypres city council and the Belgian and British armed forces...

The proposed Oosterweel connection on the Antwerp Ring has been voted the best of three alternatives by an independent panel on the basis of mobility. The Oosterweel connection is a plan to ease traffic congestion in Antwerp by completing the Ring, allowing traffic – mainly freight – to pass from...