The US airline Delta Air Lines is set to resume nonstop commercial flights between Brussels Airport and Atlanta Hartsfield, the world's largest airport, from the end of March 2017. The route was scrapped in early April following the March terror attacks in Belgium. From 26 March, 2017, Delta...

The population of the Brussels-Capital Region increased by 1.1% in 2015, bringing the region's total population up to 1,187,890 inhabitants. Of the 19 districts, the greatest population increase was seen in the City of Brussels and Schaerbeek, writes Bruzz. Brussels now has 12,717 more inhabitants...

Princess Astrid was robbed last week outside of Paris, confirms VTM News after reports from Le Parisien and the Royal Palace. The princess promptly reported the incident to the local police, but the Palace would not divulge any further details. According to Le Parisien , Astrid, her husband Lorenz...

Federal health minister Maggie De Block is investing €3.25 million in trial projects to test health-related digital apps. The projects are part of the Digital Health Valley initiative in co-operation with Alexander De Croo, minister in charge of the digital agenda. The goal of Digital Health Valley...

The body of a man has been found by mechanics at Brussels Airport in an aircraft belonging to Brussels Airlines. The man had hidden in the landing gear of the flight from Dakar in Senegal. He had no identification in his possession, the prosecutor for Halle-Vilvoorde said. An autopsy will be...

After the dazzling success of last year’s edition, culinary festival Gin + Kok takes over the Grote Markt in Blankenberge for the second time around. The name is a reference to the day’s alcoholic preference and live cooking programme, brought to you by 27 local chefs and professional mixologists...

Several Brussels metro stations on Tuesday evening were flooded due to the heavy rainfall, writes Bruzz. A number of photographs quickly appeared on Twitter, showing travellers wading barefoot through the water at Erasmus metro station. In Delta station, the water rose about 10cm high at the...

The signal box closest to the site of the deadly train accident on Sunday night in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse was not equipped with the safety system TBL1 +, which would have prevented the accident, write the Mediahuis newspapers. After the train accident in Buizingen in 2009, the entire Belgian rail...

Last summer, Beursschouwburg’s rooftop terrace in the centre of Brussels welcomed scores of urban dwellers starved for some late-night entertainment under the open sky. With a selection of music and movie screenings, and of course drinks, the Out Loud! festival proved to be a fun way to spend those...

More than one-quarter of children in Brussels (25.7%) and nearly one in five children in Wallonia (18.5%) are growing up in a household where no one works, the highest figures in Europe, writes De Tijd . The newspaper published the figures based on data from the Flemish public employment service...