Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in their nest in the bell tower of the Saint-Job church in Uccle. The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences maintains a live stream from the tower to follow the progress of the falcon family. Two of the chicks hatched yesterday morning within a few...

Brussels has 1.2 milion people - but it also has at least 700 hens, owned by more than 200 households, according to the first findings of a census launched in January. The census was conducted in order to promote hens in the city, along with finding out why people are choosing them. According to...

The latest digital technologies are being deployed in Flanders to help manage water in the region. The aim is to build an “internet of water”, an intelligent monitoring system that can measure water quality and supply in real time. “With the Internet Of Water, we will give our water managers an...

The UN High Commission has a new spokesperson on human rights - the Belgian cartoon star Spirou. Last year was the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights and the 80th anniversary for the adventure-prone comic book character. The UN decided to use Spirou to mark the anniversary of the...

Out of 95 fixed speed radars on roads around Brussels, only 68 are working. According to Brussels Mobility, the remaining 27 are not working due to degraded road surfacing, where the sensors are located. Inside the city, only five out of eleven of the radars are working. The Brussels secretary of...

Ten Belgian politicians from the leading parties were invited to speak on four key issues: mobility, the labour market, corporation tax and employment costs and country governance. Moderators were Martin Buxant and Joan Condijts of LN24 , a news channel due to launch on 2 September. Introducing the...

Ghent and Antwerp universities joined Leuven nanotech research centre imec for a test yesterday to see if “smart” cars could avoid accidents by communicating with each other. The test was carried out along the E313, which runs southeast from Antwerp to Hasselt and beyond. Imec’s “Smart Highway”...

You can now make money from handing back empty drink cans in Brussels, in a new experiment at select locations. A project launched on Monday has equipped three public places with machines that give five-cent coupons for each discarded can. The project, based on an initiative from ministers Céline...

With the opening of Beyond Bruegel, the cornerstone event of the year dedicated to the master of the Flemish Renaissance, Brussels’ Central Station has been redubbed ‘Bruegel Central’. “Even 450 years after his death, Bruegel speaks to the imagination,” said Flanders’ tourism minister, Ben Weyts...

The federal parliament will vote later this month to adopt an EU directive making it illegal to deny that genocides took place. The announcement coincided with Charles Michel’s speech in Kigali at the weekend during the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. In Belgium, the...