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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Belgium may be divided politically and linguistically, but one thing all regions and communities can agree on is the beloved national biscuit: Speculoos. Much like beer, chocolate, waffles or fries, ...

Defence Minister Theo Francken (N-VA) has cancelled the plan to land a fighter jet and a drone at the military airport in Melsbroek on Friday afternoon – an operation which would have seen Brussels ...

The son of a former NATO Secretary General has won an appeal against his conviction for fraud and breach of trust on the grounds that the “reasonable timeframe for a ruling was exceeded”. Last year, a ...

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 ...

Manneken-Pis, literally “little man pee,” in the Dutch dialect of Marols or “le petit Julien,” in French, is one of Brussels’ most famous and beloved citizens. But what’s the story behind this iconic, ...

Nearly one in five (18.3%) people in Belgium are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to Statbel figures based on a new survey ahead of World Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Friday.

As host to the EU institutions, NATO and over 200 foreign missions, Brussels is used to its fair share of scandals. But arguably nothing could have prepared it for the political and diplomatic storm ...

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 body of a child was found in northern Germany on Tuesday, after a four-day search for a missing eight-year-old boy, with police suspecting foul play. The child disappeared last Friday in the ...