Train World, the vintage train museum due to open next year in Brussels’ Schaerbeek station, is faced with an unexpected problem: there are too many trains, writes the Wall Street Journal’s Frances Robinson . Belgium built continental Europe’s first railway line in 1835 and still has the world’s...

Pukkelpop has announced this year’s line-up, with Eminem, Nine Inch Nails, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Prodigy and The xx as headliners. The festival will take place from August 15 to 17 in Kiewit, near Hasselt. Franz Ferdinand, Boys Noize, Slayer, Bat for Lashes and The Deftones are also among...

A shake-up of Belgian diplomatic posts is under way, foreign minister Didier Reynders confirmed to Le Soir. The reform is borne out of economic necessity and sees some embassies and consulates close, some open and others merge with their Dutch counterparts. Among the most high-profile new permanent...

Life expectancy in Wallonia is lower than that of all neighbouring regions, according to figures released by the World Health Organisation. With the exception of Walloon Brabant, all Walloon provinces have a lower life expectancy than adjacent regions. In Hainaut, women have a life expectancy of 81...

Production has resumed at the Ford factory in Genk today after a four-month stoppage, due chiefly to worker unrest. Ford said in October that it would shut its Genk plant and transfer the manufacturing of about 120,000 cars a year to a plant in Valencia, Spain, resulting in the loss of about 4,300...

The number of dog-assisted police drug busts in Belgian schools has risen sharply in the past five years, Le Soir reports. A total of 157 such operations took place last year, compared to 64 in 2007. They are initiated by school authorities, under the terms of the PLP41 directive, which governs...

A large majority of women who come to Belgium end up seeking a divorce, Today’s Zaman reports. The figures come from research by the Ella association, which was established in Brussels in 2000 and helps promote women’s emancipation among ethnic minorities. Birsen Taşpınar (pictured) and Sarah Avcı...

The survival rate among children and young people affected by cancer in Belgium has dramatically improved in recent years, according to figures from the cancer registry of the Belgian Society of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology. In the early 1960s, out of one million boys aged up to 19, 90 died...

The coldest temperature of the winter for Belgium was recorded last night. In Elsenborn in the High Fens, mercury fell to -17.9C, said meteorologist Eddy De Mey. Several factors caused this low temperature, including a thick layer of snow, generally clear skies and little wind in the polar air...