After more than 40 years of silence, Sybille de Selys Longchamp has broken the silence about her relationship with the newly resigned King Albert II. Sybille, the mother of the former king's illegitimate child Delphine Boel, met Albert in Greece, where her father was ambassador. Sybille and Albert...

Belgian and Dutch tax authorities have broken up a large-scale Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud between mussel dealers and their customers. A total of 20 Belgian companies and another 80 VAT-liable organisations were involved. According to initial reports by Flemish dailies Het Belang van Limburg and...

Thirty large concrete reef balls were lowered into the water at the port of Ostend yesterday which will be used to form an artificial reef at the bottom of the sea between the existing offshore wind turbines. The idea is to give plants and marine animals a safe place to thrive and flourish,...

France already has a Trival Pursuit game dedicated to wine, its national pride. And now Belgium, too, gets its own edition of the popular quiz board game, in honour of the Belgian brewing tradition. "Beer is part of our heritage," says Gaëtan De Borman of Trivial Pursuit. "This collector's edition...

Brussels water company Vivaqua is currently conducting a test in Molenbeek to try to extract energy from inside sewer pipes. The company has installed a test run in a Brussels sewer and will find out after the winter whether or not it was successful, writes Flemish public broadcaster VRT. Heat...

More than 150 Flemish scientists have gathered to protest against the rising pressure to get their work published in journals. The Higher Education Action Group has had enough of the prevailing climate at Flemish universities these days, one that is "obsessed with publications and quantity,"...

While the Belgian GP in Spa-Francorchamps may be an annual tradition since 1925, the 2012 financial year closing with a loss of more than €6 million has organisers and sponsors questioning the future of the Formula One World Championship race. Last year, the Brit Jenson Button came out the winner,...

Children studying and living outside of the home cost their parents some €12,450 annually. Students who instead stay at home and commute to their classes every day cost an average of €8,128 euros per year, according to numbers from the Centre for Budget Advice and Research (Cebud). " The living...

Brussels City Hall has refused to register the birth of a baby because of its name. The Israeli parents, Alinadav and Hagar Hyman, who have been living and working in the city for three years, wanted to name their daughter Alma Jerusalem, after their home country's capital. The name Jerusalem,...

School administrative assistant Anne Van Goethem, 38, from Weerde, talks about what she earns and how she spends it What do you do for a living? I am an admin assistant at the Sint-Ursula-Instituut in Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver. My main task is to process the results of our former students and...