Ahmadreza Djalali, the visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) currently in prison in Iran, has been moved from solitary confinement after more than 20 weeks, according to Amnesty International. Amnesty reported on Wednesday that Djalali had been moved from the cell where he had...

A Brussels court handed down a six-month prison sentence and a €1,600 fine to a man for incitement to racial hatred based on threatening comments made on social media. The man made the statements about TV host and RTBF weather reporter Cécile Djunga ( pictured ). A video posted to Facebook in 2018...

Restaurants, cafes and pubs in Belgium could be allowed to reopen their outdoor terraces from Saturday 8 May - the same day that the nationwide curfew will be partially lifted - if the vaccination of vulnerable groups continues as planned and intensive care admissions are brought under control. The...

The federal government wants rail service SNCB to schedule more early-morning, late-night and weekend trains as well as to ensure some level of counter service in all of its stations. Those requests are part of the new management contract approved by the ministerial council, according to De Morgen...

Braving the cold and rain, several hundred bikers gathered in Brussels on Saturday to protest against plans to introduce a roadworthiness test for motorcycles. The bikers claim that the mandatory safety examination, which will come into force next year, is only designed to bring extra money into...

Belgium's first children's hotel, where parents are not allowed, has opened in Durbuy, the popular tourist destination in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, in time for the Easter break. The hotel caters for young people between the age of eight and 15 and, along with luxury accommodation and...

The Wildlife Rescue Centre in Oudsbergen, Limburg, is well known in Belgium for its expertise in caring for all kinds of critters. It takes in the injured, liberates those who have gotten themselves lodged in sewer pumps or caught up in litter, nurses lost babies and even acts as a halfway house...

Five men have been handed suspended sentences of between two-and-a-half and three years for luring gay men to a parking area in East Flanders in order to rob and humiliate them. While the incidents happened last summer, they are eerily reminiscent of the death of a gay man in a park last month,...

For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting astronauts. A campaign is being launched in all EU member states, including Belgium, to encourage applicants. The Agency is looking for multiple profiles and is especially encouraging women to apply. ESA is looking for...

The breeding season for peregrine falcons is again well underway. In a tower on Saint-Job church in Uccle, a first falcon chick was born on Monday morning in one of the three nests that are watched live by the Museum of Natural Sciences via a webcam. After the chick made a first hole in the egg...