An overnight train service from Brussels to Vienna is set to launch in the new year, Austria's state railway operator ÖBB has revealed. The firm's chairman, Andreas Matthä, made the announcement in an interview with an Austrian daily newspaper on Saturday. On the same day, ÖBB posted a photo of the...

How long would it take you to make an origami crane? Imagine the collective hours, then, that went into making nearly 34,000 of them. Over the last few months, people across Flanders made a total of 33,842 cranes using the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. The colourful flock was then...

The demand for assistance from the safehouse established last year in Brussels for gay, lesbian and transgender youth far exceeds its capacity. Le Refuge took in 17 young people, but had 50 requests for temporary housing. Le Refuge assists people aged about 18 to 25 with temporary housing and...

A 36-year-old resident of Koekelberg, Brussels, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for throwing his three-month-old baby to the ground. The Koekelberg resident has a history of violent child abuse. He was previously sentenced to nine years in prison after hitting his baby son, who was then...

Fifteen inspectors from the Brussels Capital-Region will soon begin conducting checks to ensure that e-scooter users do not park the popular vehicles in areas where this isn’t allowed. In January of this year, the Brussels Capital-Region announced that it would prohibit users from parking e-...

The ministers who will handle portfolios for the next five years in the new government of Flanders have been announced. While some are familiar faces, they don’t all have the same portfolio they had in the previous government. The ministers were sworn in yesterday in parliament. Four are members of...

Adam Driver, currently one of the most popular actors in the US, is in Brussels shooting a movie, and he posted an appeal on social media about his director’s lost dog. He shot a video in Brussels Park, the last place the little dog was seen. The star of such movies as BlacKkKlansman , Star Wars:...

Attention Instagramers: All sorts of cute and quirky backgrounds are waiting for your camera at Smile Safari . You wander through and pose yourself – or your family or your group of friends willing and unwilling – amid scenes that, thanks to optical illusion, look all 3D in your photo. Artists and...

A group of activists protested at the Finance Tower in Brussels on Thursday morning to demand a new legal definition for homelessness. The protest was organised ahead of an EU meeting on the rights of homeless people that is taking place at the Federal Public Planning Service Social Integration...

A new report from the national road safety institute has revealed that 2019 has so far been the deadliest year on record for cyclists in Belgium. According to figures from the Vias institute, 48 cyclists died in the first six months of this year – an all-time high. The Vias figures also revealed...