Often overlooked, the German-Speaking Community of Belgium is a linguistic area with a parliament, flag and fascinating history.

Europe’s cocaine trade is booming and the drug’s gateway of choice is now the port of Antwerp. As the market has grown, so too have the drug gangs who find ever more ingenious ways to smuggle it in, ...

Police are still searching for the gunmen following the early morning shooting at a Brussels Metro station on Wednesday. The incident had a major impact on public transport for a large part of the day ...

Protesting Leuven students calling for “Leuven Vlaams” (A Flemish Leuven) being clubbed by Belgian gendarmerie, the paramilitary federal force, on 18 January 1968 at the height of the turmoils.

On a wing and a prayer: The Belgian wartime hero who broke the Nazi defence Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps pulled off one of the most audacious, unauthorised flying feats of World War II to earn his ...

Brussels’s iconic Academy of Sciences played host to the highly anticipated third edition of the Digital Ocean Forum (DOF2024) on June 13, under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council ...

With four shootings in Brussels in less than 24 hours – and footage of men with Kalashnikovs in a metro station – politicians, businesses and residents alike are asking the authorities to finally get ...

30,000 protesters, cancelled trains, planes and metros, and empty classrooms: here's our rundown of Belgium's national strike day, in pictures. Tens of thousands of people working in various sectors ...

We have selected the best concerts and gigs in Brussels (and Belgian festivals) that you and your friends should not miss this August. One of the city's great hidden treasures, the Brussels music ...

Before the European Union, before the Treaty of Rome, there was Benelux. The trailblazing economic union of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg paved the way for the European project that followed ...

Few holidays can outshine the joyful and colourful energy brought to Belgium by Carnival festivities. While the meaning and traditions of the holiday are a no-brainer for locals, newcomers might still ...