A case involving fraud carried out by a Belgian prince has been dismissed by the Brussels court of appeal, with the loss to the state of €75 million in damages. Prince Henri de Croÿ-Solre, a member of a family of minor nobles whose family dates its titles back to the 16th century, was convicted in...

The Belgian author and journalist Thomas Blondeau died at the weekend of a suspected aortic rupture, his publisher De Bezige Bij announced yesterday. The 35-year-old wrote widely in the Flemish and Dutch press, including De Morgen , De Standaard , Klara.be and NRC Handelsblad . Blondeau was born in...

More than 1,000 schools in the UK have signed on to a plan to bring secondary school students to Flanders to visit the battlefields of the First World War during the centenary, which starts next year. According to the British Foreign Office, the £5.3 (€6.25) million plan has already attracted 1,097...

Brussels Airport expects to have as many as 10,000 job vacancies over the next 10 years, according to CEO Arnaud Feist, speaking this week at the opening of the new Brussels Airport House. The House, on the fourth floor of the passenger terminal at Zaventem, will gather together in one place all...

The US edition, just outside Atlanta, included many of the original festival’s popular features: gourmet food, clean showers and pristine camping sites. American festivalgoers had never seen anything like it, reported the US Business Insider. Another winning formula was the 300 DJ line-up...

Police have started the identification process of the 11 victims of Saturday’s plane crash, following one of the worst aircraft disasters in Belgium in recent years. Ten skydivers and the pilot lost their lives when the plane spiraled to the ground, shortly after taking off from Temploux airport,...

In the Brussels Cinquantenaire Park on Sunday, some 1,500 people gathered in support of a new campaign against the presence of nuclear weapons in Belgium. The 'Time to go' campaign's most immediate cause for action is the approval to modernise U.S. nuclear weapons in Limburg's Kleine-Brogel ...

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is the guest of honour of the Ideafest seminar this Thursday at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). During the Ideafest, experts will discuss whether the free sharing of research results, so-called “open science”, could...

The vessel is 400 metres long, has 19 decks and weighs more unloaded than 55 nuclear submarines. If all 18,000 containers were laid end to end, they would stretch for 110 kilometres. The Port Authority said it was “delighted” with the arrival of the Mary Maersk. The success of the run proved...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Ghent on Saturday to attend the state funeral of former Belgian prime minister Wilfried Martens. Merkel was one of many Belgian and European leaders who took part in the funeral in Sint-Baaf’s Cathedral in honour of the Flemish statesman, who died on 9 October...