The federal road policing unit and 195 local road policing units caught 118,609 people using their mobile phone while driving in 2013, reports Sudpresse. In August, the Belgian Institute for Road Safety, IBSR/BIVV, will run a campaign against mobile phone use while driving. Local police registered...

Red Devils supporters Evelien Jonckheere and Pieter Tijtgat named their newborn son Titus Marouane Dries Tijtgat in honour of the Belgian scorers at the Belgium-Algeria match in Brazil on Tuesday evening. The couple from Ghent had agreed in advance that they would give their child the first names...

The municipality of Brussels-City has extended the number of locations where street musicians and other street performers who “use sound” can legally operate, culture alderwoman Karin Lalieux announced. The number of locations is increased from 16 to 19. At the same time, street musicians will be...

Denis Knoops, CEO of supermarket chain Delhaize, failed to turn up for a meeting of the works council yesterday. The meeting was scheduled to discuss the company’s restructuring plan, in the wake of last week’s announcement that 14 stores would close and 2,500 workers made redundant. Earlier,...

In a direct snub to Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the European Parliament’s Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the Flemish nationalist party N-VA turned down an offer to join ALDE on Wednesday evening, deciding instead to take up with the Eurosceptic European Conservatives and...

In the first Group H match of the World Cup in Brazil on Tuesday evening, Belgium managed to fight back from a 0-1 lead by Algeria at half-time to a 2-1 victory. After a lacklustre first half, which saw Algeria score a penalty, the Red Devils’ game picked up when substitutes Dries Mertens, Divock...

Students in Brussels are demanding more and safer cycling paths, more places to safely store their bikes and a more cycle-friendly attitude among drivers. These are the principal conclusions of a survey carried out among 1,100 of the city’s students by student service agency Br(ik. The survey...

A man has died while out celebrating Belgium's win against Algeria on Tuesday evening in Brussels. The man reportedly fell from a statue he had climbed next to the Bourse. According to sudinfo.be, the fan, born in 1973, was celebrating the Red Devils victory when at 21.15 he scaled one of the lion...

The European Parliament’s Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) came out in favour of allowing four MEPs from the Flemish separatist party, N-VA, to join its ranks at a meeting of the ALDE group on Tuesday. Belgium’s MR party, a faction of ALDE and political opponents of the N-VA,...

Multimedia service provider Telenet sent a shock-wave through the Flemish media world yesterday by announcing the acquisition of a 50% stake in De Vijver Media, the holding company that owns TV stations VIER and VIJF. Telenet bought out magazine publisher Sanoma for €26 million and invested a...