In honour of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps on Monday, survivor Alberto Israël, who lives in Brussels, visited the Kazerne Dossin holocaust museum. At the weekend, he explored the Mechelen museum’s many installations with a reporter from VRT and...

A cash incentive to get workers to give up their company car has been scrapped by Belgium's Constitutional Court. The "cash for car" scheme aimed to take tens of thousands of company cars off Belgian roads, by offering employees a tax-efficient alternative. But only 142 people took advantage of the...

A man who spent five years filing legal complaints about the state of his local roads has accepted a €1.65 million settlement to drop his actions. Marc Van Damme first sued Aarschot town council for poorly maintained roads in 2014. Since then, he was won five court cases - and each time the...

The Brussels Marathon looks set to go ahead in 2020, with a revised route, following calls for it to be cancelled due to last year's poor turnout. The event's organiser, Golazo, has been invited to a meeting this week with the City of Brussels alderman for sport, Benoît Hellings, to discuss ways of...

CHU Saint-Pierre in the centre of Brussels is ready for any potential patients with the coronavirus. It will be the hub of care and prevention in Belgium in case of an outbreak, federal health minister Maggie De Block has announced. Since the outbreak of the contagious virus in China, 26 people...

Taxidermist Ellen Carlier works to stuff a wild dog for a new gallery planned for the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Staff there are working full out on a brand new exhibition space that will open later this year. Living Planet will be a permanent gallery featuring 850 stuffed animal...

The process has started to develop the full square block bordered by Rue de Laeken and Place De Brouckère (where UGC Cinema is located) into housing and a hotel. The cinema would remain and not be affected by the building project. Insurance provider Allianz is currently moving out of the block of...

Back for an extraordinary 65th edition, the Brafa Art Fair acts as both exhibition space and marketplace. This year, for instance, visitors are invited to see some 35 paintings and drawings by the great Belgian Symbolist James Ensor. Brought together by Knokke’s Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, some...

Brussels emergency services carried out a rescue operation on Tuesday night to get a man down from the triumphal arch at Cinquantenaire. The man was perched on the arch’s ledge, some 30 metres in the air. The man apparently climbed up the monument on his own sometime in the evening. The rescue crew...

First it was wolves, now it is otters. Considered extinct in Flanders in the 1980s because their natural habitat had largely disappeared, the animals have slowly been returning to the region thanks to environmental regeneration programmes. But more needs to be done for their future to be secure. A...