Brussels trip-hop singer JoBee has filed a police report against an Uber driver who played an elaborate ‘joke’ on her that included the threat of being infected with the coronavirus. The incident took place last Sunday. The driver picked her up in Molenbeek and told her that he had just taken an...

Only 6% of streets in Brussels that carry a person's name are women, according to new research by a feminist collective which is collecting suggestions for new names. Sixty volunteers from Open Knowledge Belgium and the Noms Peut-Être collective trawled through every street name in the Brussels...

The Atomium, the United Nations and the Smurfs are working together on a new gender equality installation to be unveiled on International Women's Day. The show in the ground level and central spheres will contain various examples of the "Smurfette principle" culled from films and contemporary...

As part of this year's Offscreen Festival , Brussels' Cinematek is showing a range of weird and wonderful films about time travel in March. Time travel, a popular theme in science fiction and fantasy novels, took longer to catch on in the cinema than on the printed page and TV. With the exception...

The Irish Embassy launched the Brussels edition of the global suicide prevention movement Darkness Into Light 2020 on Tuesday evening. It announced that registration was open for the third edition of the event at Brussels’ Cinquantenaire park on 9 May at 04.15. In 2019 (pictured), almost 900 people...

This June, both the gastronomy and tourism industries will descend on Bruges for the sixth World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism. The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), which hosts the event, is an agency of the United Nations. UNWTO hosts the global event together with the Basque Culinary Centre...

Believe it or not, Brussels regulations governing Airbnb rentals are too complex and full of vague terminology. And it takes way too along for an approval. That is the message relayed by ULB in an evaluation commissioned by the Brussels Capital-Region early last year. The independent research was...

Belgium confirmed five more cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number to 13. The five positive results were in a batch of 243 tests carried out overnight by the lab at KU Leuven. Two of Tuesday's confirmed cases were in Flanders, one in Brussels and two in Wallonia. They had all...

Ixelles is claiming a first in Brussels by merging its French- and Dutch-speaking cultural offer - including libraries, theatres and artists' residencies. The municipality wants to offer a completely bilingual cultural experience to residents, many of whom have been asking for the barriers between...