A luxury hotel in Leuven has cancelled all of its Christmas holiday bookings to make room for the Sultan of Oman. Qabus ibn Saïd and his entourage have block-booked every room at The Fourth, on Leuven's Grote-Markt, for two months. The 79-year-old, who has been in power since 1970, has health...

About 2,400 people formed a human chain through Brussels on Sunday afternoon in a climate protest to coincide with the UN's COP25 climate conference in Madrid. The chain stretched from the Mont des Arts to Trône, passing the federal parliament, Congress Column and Madou. The action was organised by...

Major infrastructural changes to the Brussels Ring Road (R0) are scheduled to begin in 2024, and the Flemish and Brussels governments are looking at seven different scenarios next to the works already approved and planned. While the R0 serves motorists entering and leaving the capital, the greatest...

Four locals have become the victim of swindlers posing as taxi drivers who’ve defrauded them of thousands of euros. The taxi passengers were all presented with a device that looked like a payment terminal but in reality recorded their PIN codes. The fraudulent taxi drivers then told the passengers...

A prisoner was murdered by another inmate in the prison of Saint-Gilles yesterday. The man is alleged to have been killed by his cell mate, a Dutch national who was locked up on theft charges. The two men shared a cell in the medical wing of the Saint-Gilles prison. The alleged murderer was not in...

Staff of VRT are being “strangled” by the government’s budget cuts, according to protesters who marched from the public broadcaster’s building in Schaerbeek to the offices of the Flemish minister-president. About 600 people started out from the VRT building in the afternoon and were joined on Place...

The Extinction Rebellion climate activists are planning another action, this time in Grand Place – smack dab in the middle of the Christmas market. The local chapters of the group plan to gather in the historic square on 20 December. Like the streets in front of parliament and the square in front...

A coalition of climate activists have called for a boycott of the Salon de l’Auto, the car and motorcycle show that will open at Brussels Expo in a few weeks. Organised by the automotive federation Febiac, t he car show draws half a million visitors every year and is the high point of the year for...

Students looking for a quiet place to study ahead of their January exams can head to the Bozar cultural centre this year. The Brussels student service desk Brik has unveiled the list of organisations it’s been able to convince to temporarily open their doors to students in need of a quiet studying...

You knew The Nutcracker would be on somewhere, and it is: Brussels International Ballet school is putting on a production of the beloved holiday production in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, while Prima Donna Events has brought an international cast of dancers and musicians together for a larger-than-life...