Open drug use, shootings and residents who feel unsafe: Brussels has been in the news negatively quite a few times in recent months. The real estate market is also affected. Crime and a lack of safety ...

Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations. Not only does AI ...

On 26 September last year, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 underwater gas pipelines between Russia and Germany were blown up just off the coast of Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea. In February this ...

The 17th-century painting ‘The Return of the Holy Family from the Flight into Egypt’ by Jacob Jordaens, which was stolen by the Nazis in 1940, was returned to the descendants of its rightful owners on ...

Electric cars are involved in 50% more traffic accidents than their petrol and diesel counterparts, according to a study by insurer Axa. The high number of accidents has actually nothing to do with ...

All of Brussels can be seen as an open-air museum with streets, squares and parks adorned by historical statues and memorials, mostly meant to represent and even glorify Belgium’s past. But for a long ...

Belgium has ground to a halt again on Monday due to a general strike. This is the third major multi-sector strike so far this year. Flights, public transport and services are disrupted, as workers ...

A young Belgian man recently died by suicide after talking to a chatbot named ELIZA for several weeks, spurring calls for better protection of citizens and the need to raise awareness. "Without these ...

A deepfake video showing Belgium's prime minister speaking of an urgent need to tackle the economic and climate crises has been put into circulation by Extinction Rebellion Belgium. Published on ...

On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a ...

The Netherlands’ most notorious drug lord received a life sentence on Tuesday for a series of murders committed between 2015 and 2017. Ridouan Taghi, 46, originally from Morocco but raised in the ...