The fine arts are a known quantity in Brussels, home to dozens of internationally recognised museums and galleries. What you might not know is that the capital is also a hotbed of the functional arts: architecture, furniture, textiles and industrial design. Although less glamorous, designers are...

A Belgian teacher who had been kidnapped in Syria has returned to Belgium after he and an Italian war reporter for the Turin daily La Stampa were freed on Sunday. A few hours after their release was announced, Pierre Piccinin and Domenico Quirico landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport where they were...

A United Airlines plane en route to Brussels with more than 200 passengers returned to Chicago’s O'Hare international airport Friday because of a "suspected security concern," writes the Chicago Tribune’s Naomi Nix . United Flight 972 was scheduled to depart from O'Hare around 6p.m Friday and...

Belgium can play a bigger role in China's economic structural reform and grow economically by tapping into the Chinese market according to the Chinese ambassador to Belgium . Liao Liqiang said he was especially optimistic about the prospects of Sino-Belgian cooperation in the high-tech sector ,...

Belgium’s Pieter Devos yesterday won the CN International show jumping competition at the Spruce Meadows’ Masters tournament in Calgary, the Lethbridge Herald reports. Olympic gold medallist Steve Guerdat of Switzerland took second place riding Nasa and France’s Penelope Leprevost finished third...

Franz Ferdinand are coming back to Brussels for their biggest concert to date in the capital. The Glasgow art-rockers, who recently appeared at the Pukkelpop festival, will play Forest National (in its ‘Club’ configuration) on March 7, 2014 – almost four years to the day after their last Brussels...

Three members of the federal government have written to Belgian communes to raise awareness of the illegal use of parking spaces reserved for disabled people, their respective spokespeople announced yesterday. In their joint letter, Joëlle Milquet, home affairs minister in charge of equal...

The Brussels region and the provinces of Hainaut and Liège will receive €120m from the European Union over a two-year period, aimed at getting young people under the age of 25 into work, L’Echo reports today. The European Union has a total budget of €6bn to promote youth employment in the smallest...

Belgium is demanding that the European Union lift sanctions on a Zimbabwean mining firm despite deep concerns within the Union over alleged fraud in a July election that kept President Robert Mugabe in power, reports Reuters . Belgium's call for the removal of sanctions on the state-run Zimbabwe...