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, ...

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 ...

They are the naughty gnomes, the original blue man group, the evergreen imps. They are, of course, the Smurfs.

The linguistic divide: Unraveling Belgium's struggles of identity and autonomy The events of January 1968 shocked Belgium. In Leuven, French-speaking students and professors, together with their ...

Clearer rules are needed to achieve circularity. Plastics recycling has gone through a long journey from when it started in the 80’s. Today recycled plastic is becoming omnipresent in our everyday ...

Brussels’ tiniest commune, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, may lack space for the living, but its cemetery in nearby Schaerbeek is rich in stories of the dead. We tread its shaded paths to find revolutionaries ...

King Philippe visited Belgium’s national football team in Los Angeles on Thursday, a day before their 2026 World Cup ...

The library was destroyed again directly after Nazi-Germany’s invasion of Belgium in the next world war and rebuilt brick by brick after the war as a sign of Leuven’s resilience and spirit. Today, the ...

Several people were found dead in a lift in the OXY Tower in central Brussels after fire broke out in the building on Tuesday, the Labour Division of the Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed on ...

Now that all votes have been cast and counted, Belgium's government formation process can start. The notoriously long negotiations that take place after general elections are evidenced by Belgium ...

The Brussels football team has received conditional permission to build a new stadium in Forest, but are still being asked to ...

The Strépy-Thieu boat lift is the heavyweight champion of waterway engineering: a mechanical colossus that hoists ships skyward like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat. But it’s just one act in a ...