One of Brussels’ most fun festivals is back: Up! Festival de Cirque puts all manner of awe-inspiring stunts, physical comedy and downright goofiness on stage and in the streets. These are the kinds of acrobatics and feats of timing that leave you wondering how long it took them to master it, and if...

More than 6,000 people joined the march on Sunday in Brussels for International Women's Day, according to police estimates. The procession set off from Central Station to the Justice Palace, and back. "Stop sexism" and "Solidarity with women around the world" were among the chants and messages...

Brussels' Leopold II road tunnel will be renamed after a woman, with the public invited to vote for who it should be. The tunnel will bear a woman's name when it fully reopens in late 2021 following renovation works. "This is a well-known route named after a controversial man," said Brussels...

The poorest neighbourhoods in Brussels also have the highest concentrations of fine particulates in the air. That is the conclusion of a study carried out by the Interface Demography research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The team mapped the relationship between air pollution and...

Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte takes multi-tasking to a whole new level. As managing partner of global law firm Hogan Lovells’ Brussels office , and a specialist in antitrust issues and EU competition law – which prohibits anti-competitive practices – she advises multinational corporations on topics like...

The Walloon company Texere Biotech has created the world’s first automated robotic bone graft production system, which revolutionises the processing of human tissue. Bone tissue is the second most transplanted part of the human body after blood. Bone grafts are useful for fixing bones damaged by...

As of this morning, there are 108 people sick with the coronavirus in Belgium. The total cases add up to 109, but Belgium’s first patient has recovered. Of the 108 current cases, 12 are in Brussels, 65 in Flanders and 31 in Wallonia. Today marks the first day that the virus has been diagnosed in...

Want to run a friterie? How about one of the most popular friteries in the world? The municipality of Ixelles is accepting bids to manage the much-loved Frit Flagey on the eponymous square. Frit Flagey is one of many public food stalls owned by the city and put out to bid among private parties...

Antwerp's Red Star Line Museum, which relates the story of the passenger ships that took millions of Europeans to the New World, is looking for letters, postcards, diaries or other written documents sent by Flemish immigrants to the United States. The museum is working together with the Vrij...

‘Hands Up, Hands Off’ is the theme for this year’s La Belle Hip Hop , a celebration of women in urban music. As the theme suggests, it’s also a condemnation of violence against women, supported by the #Realize campaign, and kicks off on International Women’s Day with a concerts of international...