Consider your travel plans over the long mid-August weekend as the independent trade union (SIC/OVS) plans to strike on Saturday 17 August, announced HR Rail on Wednesday, reports Belga. Representing SNCB train conductors, the union also led a strike at the end of July in a protest against staff...

A PhD student at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) has discovered that Google shows Dutch speakers in the capital different restaurant and bar suggestions than French speakers. VUB PhD student Annelien Smets reviewed thousands of hotel, restaurant and event recommendations offered by Google...

Located a five-minute walk from the Midi train station, the new Meininger hotel in Anderlecht welcomed in its first guests yesterday evening. With its sister hotel in Molenbeek, the German hostel-hotel chain now operates two hotels in the capital. “The colourful mix of Brussels is a perfect...

Greenpeace yacht Rainbow Warrior III is due to sail into Ostend and Antwerp from 27 September to 8 October, announced the environmental activist group on Tuesday. The public is invited to step on board the emblematic vessel during its maiden voyage to Belgium, reports Belga. Rainbow Warrior III is...

Brussels-City/Ixelles police zone has launched a Facebook page in the hope of more easily finding the owners of stolen and abandoned bikes recovered by officers. The page is called Veloflic Polbru and shows photo after photo of bikes found by the police in recent weeks. “Thanks to the Facebook page...

Staff at the Brugmann hospital in Laeken went on a 30-minute strike on Tuesday around lunchtime – for the 10th week in a row. Some 40 members of the medical staff protested in front of the hospital’s main entrance on Tuesday. The nurses and medics did so to call attention to increasing work...

Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht died after crashing during the Tour de Pologne race on Monday. Following his heavy fall, the 22-year-old was revived at the scene, but died later in hospital. Lambrecht fell into a canal during the third stage of the eight-stage road cycle race in Poland, where he...

A work of art purchased in a bar near Liège for €500 could be a Rembrandt and has been valued at more than €30 million, reported local media SudPresse on Monday. The painting of Jesus was acquired by a Verviers man around 12 years ago. He had met a person in a bar in Herstal, near Liège, who was...

Brussels transport authority STIB has announced a series of additional security measures following a meeting between management and trade unionists on Thursday. STIB security officers will from now on patrol in groups of three instead of two and they’ll more frequently go on self-defence trainings...

Many Brussels cyclists feel that local police don’t take their complaints of road rage by drivers as seriously as they should. Malte Arhelger, one of the organisers of the Critical Mass guerrilla biking events in the capital, put the question to locals in a recent Facebook post. Do Brussels drivers...