Belgium's emergency services have launched a recruitment drive for telephone operators, whose job is to answer calls from people in need of urgent help. The interior ministry is hiring new staff for each of the country's regional call centres for emergency numbers 112 (fire and ambulance) and 101 (...

Another Brussels swimming pool is closing for renovation works - with Triton in Evere out of action for at least three months from January 2020. The closure will deprive local schoolchildren of swimming lessons and place additional pressure on capacity elsewhere, with nearby pools in Schaerbeek and...

Police arrested 51 people for attempting to join an unauthorised far-right march in central Brussels on Sunday. The 'March on Brussels' was banned by the city's mayor Philippe Close, who refused to grant a permit for it to go ahead - but organisers announced they planned to take part anyway. The...

150 years ago, the first trams appeared on Brussels’ streets. We take a look back through the archives to see how they’ve evolved over the years, from horse-drawn wagons to a ride fit for a king 1869 1 May 1869 saw the very first horse-drawn tram take to the capital’s streets, covering the length...

If the Space Age began when the Sputnik satellite was launched in 1957, then Liege-based software engineering company Spacebel has been around for just half that time. But as the company celebrates its 30th anniversary, it can claim its own role in the story of mankind’s adventures in space, thanks...

Expats tend not to arrive in Belgium with a suitcase full of money extracted from their savings and investments. At least to begin with, those investments are typically kept at home. Once you’ve arrived and settled in Belgium, then it’s time to explore whether and how much you might be able to save...

story might be apocryphal, but it’s readily told in Flemish circles in Brussels. At the end of the 1970s, Flanders and the French Community had to divide some assets between them. The Ancienne Belgique, a dilapidated concert hall in the heart of the capital, surrounded by private homes. And the...

A requested permit for the March on Brussels, planned for this Sunday, has been denied, a decision reached between Brussels-City mayor Philippe Close and the Brussels-Ixelles police zone. The organisers of the march say they are planning to hold the protest anyway. Organisers are protesting the...

A man in Forest gave his neighbours quite a show yesterday morning, when he took to a light pole to escape being arrested by police. He hung on for two hours. According to a spokesperson for the Brussels South police zone, police arrived at the man’s third-story flat on Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens at...