While a number of restaurants in Brussels continue to struggle with the effects of a drastically reduced clientele two months after the terror attacks of 22 March, various organisations have reported that a modest recovery is underway. One particularly sunny holiday weekend in mid-May contributed...

The Brussels-based Child Focus is working to alert authorities and the public about the number of missing unaccompanied refugee minors in the country. In the first four months of this year, the organisation opened 32 case files, compared to 36 in the whole of 2015. According to director Heidi De...

On the day of the terrorist attacks in Brussels on 22 March, mobile phone operator Proximus introduced a priority calls system to allow 50 senior officials and others to use the network in Brussels even when it was saturated for other users. The move was revealed this week by Proximus CEO Dominique...

The Brussels Art Institute (BAI) in Anderlecht, run by Flemish artist Jan De Cock, has been pulled back from the brink of closure by the Flemish Community Commission (VGC), which manages Flemish affairs in Brussels. Students from the Sint-Lukas arts secondary school in Schaerbeek are currently...

Win tickets: The Live Comedy Festival is back with an impressive range of international star stand-ups from now until mid-June, in Antwerp and Brussels. Performances this year include the UK's Jimmy Carr, the brilliant ventriloquist Nina Conti and American Reginald D Hunter. 24 May, 20.00 at CC...

For the production of his latest film Le Fidèle ( The Faithful ), Belgian director Michael R. Roskam is in Brussels over the next few months to shoot numerous scenes from the movie. It is his third feature film after Bullhead and The Drop . The first released image from his new film ( pictured )...

Flemish minister for animal welfare Ben Weyts has announced that Belgium's Animal Welfare service will expand from 19- to 30 full-time jobs, thus becoming a full-fledged animal police. The new animal police will carry out more thorough checks on reports of animal cruelty across the country, and...

The average distance travelled by a Belgian worker between his residence and work is 19 kilometres. The car remains the most popular means of transport, but the bicycle is making a strong comeback, writes Metrotime. While the high traffic congestion in Belgium may say otherwise, more than 68% of...

A court in Leuven will begin hearing a civil case today regarding euthanasia that could lead to a change in the law. The case concerns a 74-year-old woman with terminal cancer, who was refused euthanasia in 2011 by a Catholic rest home in Diest, Flemish Brabant. The woman fulfilled all of the legal...

One of the biggest fraud cases in the world of diamond trading has ended in Antwerp, with a jail sentence of four years for the main defendant, as well as a fine of €550,000 and a ban on practising the trade. Eight other defendants were sentenced to between 12 and 30 months and fined between €2,750...