Aalst city councillor Ilse Uyttersprot (CD&V), who served a term as the city’s mayor, has been killed, the public prosecutor of East Flanders has announced. Police found her body at her boyfriend’s home after he had turned himself in. “This morning a man presented himself to police in Aalst,”...

Brussels concert halls Ancienne Belgique and Botanique have officially cancelled ongoing contracts with outside service providers, such as stage technicians, production managers, caterers and cleaners. According to the venues’ spokespeople, it is impossible to keep anyone on retainer or maintain...

A man has been filmed riding an electric scooter at 70kph on the Brussels ring road. A motorist spotted the scooter using the emergency lane late at night. The rider was not wearing a helmet or a fluorescent vest. Scooters are banned on motorways and their speed is limited to 25kph. Driving in the...

Eighteen months after a 20-year-old student died of organ failure after being forced to drink fish oil during a student club initiation ceremony, Limburg’s public prosecutor has decided to press charges against the 18 young men involved. Sanda Dia ( pictured ) was made to drink fish oil and...

Icelandic expat Konrad Hrafnkelsson went missing last week after leaving his home in the Brussels municipality of Schaarbeek. Hrafnkelsson’s partner, Kristjana Diljá Þórarinsdóttir, reported his disappearance to the police, and, together with other members of his family, is asking the public for...

The only establishment in Belgium where you can sit down to a glass of the world-famous Westvleteren beer has closed its doors, for the time being. In De Vrede, the pub across the way from the Sint-Sixtus Abbey, where the beer is brewed, was faced with too many crowds to be able to keep to...

Brussels' vast indoor food hall, Wolf, has closed its doors "for a few weeks", in light of the coronavirus situation. The 3,000m² Wolf food market opened last December in a former bank on Rue Fossé aux Loups, with an on-site micro-brewery, chocolatery, organic market and 17 restaurants. Before...

Retailers in Belgium have reported a "particularly disappointing" start to the summer sales, which began on Saturday after a one-month postponement. Shopkeepers had planned substantial discounts from day one of the sales to attract customers and clear surplus stocks, which are larger than usual due...

The City of Antwerp will open a sprawling new Covid-19 testing site in the city’s Spoor Oost neighbourhood next week. In doing so, city officials want to prevent people without symptoms and holidaymakers from overburdening the city’s primary health care system. At the new testing site, only people...

Need inspiration for your next Instagram selfie? After a successful try-out at Tour & Taxis last autumn – attracting 30,000 visitors in three months – a place described as “the biggest Instagram and TikTok museum in Europe” is back in a more permanent guise, right in the centre of Brussels...