An annual, global vegan march will be held in Brussels for the first time on August 25. The Official Animal Rights March was founded by the UK animal rights organisation Surge and was organised in London for the first time in 2016. The Brussels leg of the march will begin with organisers giving...

Locals who want to move into a new building typically contact their local municipal administration to arrange for no-parking signs to be put up. These traffic signs must be reserved and paid for in advance at city hall. The no-parking signs are placed by municipal workers shortly before the moving...

A pickpocket in Ixelles was left with a fractured skull after trying to steal from a three-time world boxing champion. Youssef Boughanem, nicknamed Terminator, was eating takeaway chips on Place Flagey while waiting for a friend, when he caught a man trying to steal the mobile phone from his pocket...

Orchardists in the Haspengouw region of Limburg are reporting that up to one-third of their crops have been lost to rot, due to the unprecedented temperatures reached in July. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” one apple grower told VRT. Temperatures in Haspengouw surpassed 40 degrees...

Paint cans, ropes, beach towels, cables, bicycles, a “half a cow” and endless varieties of plastic bottles and jugs. Those are just a few of the items brought up out of the oceans by Belgian fishing boats every day as part of the Fishing for Litter project. The European initiative recruits...

More young people are using small canisters of nitrous oxides, also known as laughing gas, to get high. The pressurised canisters are readily available in shops as well as online. Pieter Debaets, director of recreation park De Ster in the East Flemish town of Sint-Niklaas, told De Standaard that...

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is helping to develop the next generation of self-healing robots. The robots will be able to detect when they are damaged and heal themselves. The €3 million funding is being provided in the framework of the EU’s Future & Emerging Technologies programme. The...

One i n 10 residents in Beringen rarely see other people. In the Limburg town, one in three people over the age of 75 live alone. The finding is the result of a collaboration between the Beringen social service centre De Klitsberg and the federal post service Bpost. The bClose project saw mail...

The summer pilot project Expedition Swim, which saw Brussels residents signing up to swim in local ponds and lakes, comes to and end this weekend at Bois de la Cambre with an open swim. Swimmers don’t need to register in advance as they previously did. It’s first come, first served, so swimmers are...

Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus once said that artists have to destroy conventions to create anything new, that only by eradicating the world as they know it will they be able to design something worth showing to others. Forget influences, embrace the unknown, basically. A decade later, this...