The final touches are being made to the world-famous flower carpet on the Grand Place, Brussels' main square. Over 100 volunteers started working early on Thursday to decorate the cobblestones with ...

When Charlotte Brontë left Brussels in 1844 after her two-year stay at the Pensionnat Heger, the future author of Jane Eyre returned to her Yorkshire village of Haworth with her head crammed with ...

Machetes, clubs, pickaxes and spears. These were the weapons used by Rwandans as they slaughtered their fellow countrymen during the 1994 genocide. They were used against colleagues, neighbours, ...

On the last Friday of May, a military plane touched down outside Brussels and a man in a dark suit ran out, leaping into the arms of family members. The Belgian aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, was ...

Contemporary Belgian politics often seems too complex for its good, but the political landscape in the Middle Ages and the early modern period could have been even more bizarre. Belgium was once a ...

From his home in the rural Flemish municipality of Oudsbergen, Raymond Behr shows his collection of medals. At just 17 years old, Behr was one of the 3,172 soldiers sent by Belgium to help defend ...

For their first official trip abroad, Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg and his wife, Grand Duchess Stéphanie, chose Belgium. King Philippe and Queen Mathilde welcomed the newly enthroned Grand Duke ...

The President of the Reformist Movement (MR), Georges-Louis Bouchez, denied on Thursday that his stance was obstructing budget negotiations and affirmed his commitment to the coalition agreement and ...

A German MEP and vocal critic of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Hungary of paying over €1 million to spy on him. Daniel Freund from the European Greens is a leading anti-corruption ...

Brussels Employment Minister Bernard Clerfayt has warned that Actiris will be unable to match excluded jobseekers with suitable positions as thousands stand to lose unemployment benefits under ...

Footage published by HLN shows a kitesurfer in Koksijde venturing into the sea amid Storm Benjamin, as gusts of up to 120 kilometres per hour pounded the Belgian coast. The violent winds and towering ...

“This will take a while to digest, but I’ll be back”, Belgium's Nafissatou ‘Nafi’ Thiam announced in a social media post shortly after withdrawing midway through the heptathlon event at last month's ...