Federal justice minister Koen Geens has introduced new legislation governing the techniques investigators are allowed to use to gain access to digital communications via computers, smartphones and other devices. The change to the rules concerns the surveillance of a device remotely, without the...

Denmark is the happiest country in the world, according to the UN's 2016 World Happiness Report update. Belgium comes in 18th place in the study, writes Het Laatste Nieuws . The fourth edition of the World Happiness Report, which ranks 156 countries by their inhabitants' overall sense of well-being...

Bilingualism is good for the brain and leads to cognitive advantages among children. But what is the best way of teaching a child more than one language at once? Piet van de Craen is a professor of linguistics at the VUB in Brussels. At a recent talk at ISF Waterloo International School, he...

The Native American rights activist Suzan Shown Harjo last week told De Standaard that Belgian football club AA Gent should do away with its 'Indian chief' mascot because it portrays a degrading image of Native Americans. The Belgian Air Force also uses a similar logo since 1938, adds De Standaard...

The City of Brussels this week celebrates the Irish national holiday of Saint Patrick's Day with special initiatives, in addition to the numerous gatherings in Irish pubs across the city, writes Brusselslife. Several Belgian monuments will light up green for the occasion, the symbolic color of...

Mobility problems and increasing property rents are leading to an exodus of businesses from Brussels, but Flanders is reaping the benefits, according to Ingrid Ceusters, CEO of property consultants Group Hugo Ceusters-SCMS. Last year in Brussels, 40% less office space was sold or rented than the...

Belgium's Royal Museums of Fine Arts and the Google Cultural Institute on Tuesday announced the launch of a new project around Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of the greatest Flemish painters of the 16th century. The Unseen Masterpieces project features 12 works by the painter, to be admired in eight...

The citizens’ organisation Ieder Kind een Stoel (A Chair for Every Child) has announced its intention to file a legal complaint against the government of Flanders because of too little capacity for pupils in Brussels’ Dutch-speaking schools. The organisation has launched a crowdfunding action to...

On 14 September 2015, sensors at the twin Ligo laser interferometer observatories in the United States detected a slight wavelength shift in the lasers running through the vacuum sealed tubes inside each facility. The change was recorded and, over the next several months, scientists the world over...

Oxfam is appealing for expat groups, workplace colleagues, families and friends to get involved in a fundraising marathon walk around Flanders Fields to mark the centenary of the first world war and help people affected by conflict today. The first edition of the Peacewalker challenge will take...