If you are missing your favourite beauty brands from home, why not plump for something new and check out what products Belgium has to offer. Be Creative Ici Paris XL is a well-known perfume and cosmetics shops with more than 285 outlets in the Benelux. It all started in 1968, with a small perfume...

Tributes were paid at the weekend to dowager queen Fabiola, who died at home at Stuyvenberg castle in Brussels on Friday. The widow of King Baudouin, she was 86. The government has declared a period of national mourning until the funeral, which takes place this Friday. All flags on official...

A 38-year-old Moroccan man was sentenced on Friday by a court in Brussels to 27 years in prison for arson in the Rida mosque, the largest Shia mosque in Brussels, in March, 2012. An imam was killed in the fire. The court found the arsonist guilty of arson causing death, possession of weapons and...

Half of Belgians are overweight, and about 14% are obese, according to the most recent health survey conducted by the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP). The number of overweight people in Belgium has only gone up since the first WIV-ISP health survey in 1997, when 41% of Belgians were...

The train crash at Wetteren, East Flanders, in May of 2013, which led to toxic chemicals being leaked into the environment, the death of one person and the evacuation of 2,000 homes, was partly caused by a “macho culture” that prevents drivers from admitting to fatigue, according to a report from...

Christmas markets across Belgium will carry out extra police checks to prevent alcohol abuse among people under the age of 16, said Paul Van den Meerssche of the FPS Public Health . As secondary school students across the country get ready to finish their exams later this week, the Public Health...

We asked Kathleen Lauwens, 34, from Leest what she does with the €1300 net she earns as a service checks consultant. What do you do for work? I’m a service vouchers consultant and the regional representative for Rupel, Mechelen, Leuven and Lier. That means that I do all the planning for domestic...

It’s rare to see a Broadway musical in a francophone theatre, but for its 20th anniversary Le Public collaborates with Théâtre National in staging Cabaret until Sunday December 7. Set in Berlin in the 1930s, the Broadway hit then tours Wallonia: Namur, Liège and Louvain-la-Neuve. It’s a...

In days gone by, Belgian high street banks had the market for private banking to themselves. But with the arrival of the EU institutions, Nato and numerous multinational hubs, Belgium has become an attractive market for private banks and this has resulted in increased competition for the assets of...

There are several places where you can pick up a pet, namely pet shops, shelters and breeders. In Belgium, pet shop owners need a licence, and they are not allowed to sell cats and dogs: only breeders can. Visit your pet shop instead for birds, reptiles, fish or small rodents, and always ask the...