More potatoes? Only once you have eaten all of your sprouts! is the perennial battle cry of parents heard at Christmas dinner tables whenever Brussels sprouts are involved. Love it or hate it, the ...

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 ...

On a grey Belgian spring day, people in dark suits hurry up and down Antwerp’s Hoveniersstraat carrying black leather briefcases. Some pause to talk with one another for a moment, but in the city’s ...

French police are said to be keeping a close eye on France’s border with Belgium following Sunday’s brazen jewellery heist at the Louvre in Paris. The robbery unfurled at alarming speed, taking place ...

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 ...

The European Commission’s proposal to use frozen Russian assets to issue a recovery loan to Ukraine received widespread support in the European Parliament on Tuesday. During the debate, MEPs from the ...

Ahead of its big launch, the Parisian luxury bakery group Copains is changing its name to Copines in Belgium over a naming dispute with an eponymous Walloon bakery. Earlier this month, the French ...

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 ...

Described as short and plump, plainly dressed Sister Godfrieda did not stand out, apart from the fact that she wore a nun’s habit. But after she was arrested for a series of murders in the picturesque ...

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 ...

US Vice President JD Vance and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Israel on Monday to discuss the second phase of the twenty-point plan for Gaza, according to Israeli media. This phase ...