Belgium has surpassed all previous battery collection rates, collecting more than 4,000 tonnes of used batteries in 2024, battery collection organisation Bebat has announced. With this level, Belgium is reportedly the world champion when it comes to battery collection per person per year. The 4,029...

The Schaerbeek public centre for social welfare (CPAS) has announced plans to close the Albert de Latour residential care centre, putting 87 jobs at risk and leaving 90 residents in need of new housing. The mandatory renovation of the retirement home would apparently be too expensive, RTBF reports...

Due to the lack of a Brussels government, funds for the breast cancer screening programme have been blocked and not a single Brussels woman has been invited for a mammogram screening so far this year, according to trade magazines Medi-Sfeer and Le Spécialiste. The organisations responsible for the...

The former Nazi prison camp Fort Breendonk near Mechelen is appealing to the public to donate miniature versions of its symbolic statue De Weerstander (The Resistance Fighter). These small replicas of the famous bronze statue by Jewish Romanian artist Idel Ianchelivici were issued in the 1950s to...

Two travellers who lost a bag containing passports, driving licences and jewellery on a Belgian train were unable to recover their valuables because Belgian railway operator SNCB donated them to charity, even though they could have traced the identity of the travellers through the documents in the...

Belgian music rights holders received €34 million in royalties via Spotify last year, an increase of 11% compared to 2023, according to the music streaming platform’s Loud & Clear report. The amount does not go entirely to the artists: Spotify pays part of its music-related revenue to rights...

The Villa Empain and the Boghossian Foundation present a themed dialogue between ancient Egypt and contemporary art in the exhibition Timeless gazes: from pharaohs to the present day . Some 130 works from the prestigious archaeological collections of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art include rare...

A sea of blue awaits the thousands of visitors descending on the wild bluebell carpet of Hallerbos over the next few weeks. The annual Bluebell Festival is a natural blossoming of wild spring flowers that is running until 4 May this year. Located in a woodland site near Halle on the outskirts of...

Angry pedestrians in Uccle have begun a campaign to protest against people who park illegally, putting stickers on cars saying: "Don’t be a Putin. Do not annex the pavement." On one day in late March alone, some 175 cars received these notices on their rear windows, referring to Russian president...