The Halles Saint-Géry is the venue for Down in the River, an exhibition of remains discovered during archaeological excavations at the site of the former Parking 58. When the Parking 58 building was demolished recently to make way for the new City Administrative Centre, a very deep hole was created...

A guide to Belgium’s ever-growing range of wines has been published for the first time. Le Guide des Vins Belges lists 162 Belgian vintages which were carefully selected by a jury. Only three of them obtained the maximum score of five stars: the Cuvée Réserve Brut from Chant d’Eole, the Ruffus...

Investigators are carrying out a full-scale reconstruction of the events on the night of 24 February 2018 at Charleroi airport in an attempt to fully understand what happened to Josef Chovanec and how exactly he lost his life after being detained by police. More than three and a half years after...

Drivers with the LVC licence, who can be hired to carry passengers, will take to the streets of Brussels on Thursday to demand that the Brussels government keeps its promise to reform the outdated regulations for the taxi sector. The action, organised by the Common Front for LVC Drivers union, is...

Just like the original Manneken Pis in Brussels, the Manneken Pis LV at the D Casino in Las Vegas dons costumes for celebrations, wearing hockey attire for games, dressing for music festivals and putting on a tux for New Year’s Eve. And just like with the original, people love to have their picture...

Kanye West was in Wijnegem last week, where he may have bought a flat. Yes, you read that right. Arguably the most famous rapper in the world, whose celebrity status instantly doubled upon his marriage to professional socialite Kim Kardashian, was spotted in the suburb east of Antwerp best known...

Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York last Friday in a speech that emphasised multilateralism in solving global problems such as Covid-19 and the climate crisis. De Croo ( pictured ) started by quoting Dag Hammarskjöld, the second...

A new mural has been unveiled in the Marolles to celebrate the 75th anniversary this month of Belgian comic book heroes Blake and Mortimer. Not surprisingly considering their popularity, they were among the first characters to have a mural along the Brussels comic book mural tour dedicated to them...

A section of Rue de la Loi in central Brussels will have one less car lane once work begins to transform the road into a safer thoroughfare for cyclists. The reduction of the road towards Rue des Colonies and Gare Centrale from three car lanes to two, allowing the bicycle lanes on each side of the...

How healthy is the air in the streets of Brussels? Some 3,000 inhabitants of Brussels started a large-scale air quality measurement project on Saturday to find out the answer. With test tubes attached to their windows, they will measure the amount of nitrogen dioxide in the outside air for four...