The public is invited to vote for their favourite street art design to decorate the public transport tunnels heading into the Simonis metro station. The winning murals will be painted at the mouths of the tunnels leading into the station via Avenue de la Liberté and Avenue de Jette. Brussels...

As the coronavirus crisis rages, it’s easy to feel helpless. But it’s also easy to make a difference. We’ve rounded up a few ways you can play your part in the community, practically, financially and by showing solidarity. Lend a hand There are several platforms matching those in need of help with...

UZ Brussel has put out a call to the public to not ignore symptoms of heart failure or stroke because of the current situations in hospitals. The university hospital in Jette, associated with VUB, lost two patients this week because they hesitated to make the trip to the emergency department...

Have you gone bear hunting yet? The stuffed toy sightings are all the rage in Belgium at the moment. What you do is you put a plush toy in your window so that people (ostensibly children) can spot it as they walk by. The initiative sprang up organically across the world recently, inspired by...

Before arriving in Belgium, I studied in Romania and Switzerland; I also worked and lived for a short period in Norway, then moved back to Romania. Brussels has been my city since 2015, when my wife obtained a work contract. Adapting to a new country, city and culture can be demanding, but it is...

The term ‘servant leadership’ was coined by Robert K Greenleaf, a US business executive and management consultant, in a 1970 essay called The Servant as Leader. “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice...

There’s only the sound of an occasional stifled yawn in the studio as we lie flat on our backs, knees apart in a butterfly stretch, slowly lengthening our adductor muscles. We maintain this posture for minutes on end, accompanied by deep breathing, relaxation of the chest and an occasional gentle...

Belgium is to begin planning how - and when - to ease its coronavirus restrictions, with a view to a "gradual" reopening of public life over several months. Prime minister Sophie Wilmès will bring together a group of high-level experts to "prepare a gradual deconfinement", she told parliament on...

Frontline medical staff at nine Brussels hospitals have published an open letter to Belgium's health minister, warning they are in dire need of the masks and other protective equipment needed to do their job. The hospitals, which are all part of the Iris network, also warned on Thursday that their...

While Limburg has the most cases of coronavirus per capita than any other province in Belgium, its smallest town has not seen one person get infected. No one in Herstappe, in the far south of the province on the border with Wallonia, has been sick since the outbreak. Of course, there are only 88...