The Brussels government approved on Thursday a draft decree aimed at increasing the amount of "independent premium" funding for jobseekers looking to start their own business. Many jobseekers dream of embarking on the adventure of entrepreneurship but do not dare to take the plunge. The current...

The civil court in Brussels issued an order on Thursday ruling in favour of the municipality of Uccle in the dispute between it and Brussels-City over the closure of the Bois de la Cambre. Closed to car traffic by Brussels-City, which manages it, the Bois de la Cambre will have to be reopened on...

A new art installation featuring thousands of tiny origami structures has been created in the Saint-Hubert royal galleries in Brussels. Artist Charles Kaisin, the creator of the Origami for Life project, has hung thousands of origami birds from the ceiling of the galleries. The birds have been...

Over the last two months, an expert from Antwerp Zoo has been working with customs agents and inspectors from the federal public health department to recognise and safely confiscate illegal bushmeat, hunting trophies and vegetation coming through Brussels Airport. The co-operation was part of...

The Fine Arts Museum of Belgium has put loads of cool activities online . The virtual exhibitions are not just a walk around the museum but put you up close and personal with artworks, honing in on details and telling you what they're all about. See what dozens of Bruegel’s normally tiny characters...

Bpost has opened its annual ‘Saint Secretariat’ where children can send their letter to Saint Nicholas. The saint receives an average of 300,000 letters each year, bpost reported on Wednesday. The address to receive a response in French is Rue du Paradis 1, 0612 Ciel. In Dutch it's Spanjestraat 1,...

Police seized around 30 animals from a so-called educational farm on Rue Saint-Denis on the border between Anderlecht and Forest in Brussels on Tuesday evening. According to a report released by the animal protection organisation Animals in Peril which, with a number of other groups, assisted the...

A brief comment by the European Parliamentarian Johan Van Overtveldt regarding the sexuality of a VRT journalist caused a storm on social media, even prompting the new secretary of state for asylum and migration Sammy Mahdi to say he was waiting for "explanations" from the former Belgian finance...

Singer Geike Arnaert is returning to Hooverphonic, in a surprise announcement made by the band yesterday. Arnaert left the seminal Belgian band in 2008 to pursue a solo career, which has resulted in two albums, many concerts and regular guest appearances with other artists. “It’s a new day on so...

King Philippe made his traditional Armistice Day visit to the Congress Column on Place du Congrès today. He laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the foot of the column. A minute’s silence was held at 11.00 in recognition of the end of the First World War in 1918 on the “eleventh hour...