Since opening the first restaurant in Belgium to serve insects, chef David Creëlle has turned it into a successful catering business, published a cookbook, and launched the food company Bugs World Solution Food. Later this week Creëlle will introduce his new insect burgers during the World Food...

Breakfast was handed out to cyclists on Thursday morning at various stops across Brussels, in an initiative of Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet and various cycling organisations. The free breakfast was offered between 7.30 and 8.30 at Brussels' three major train stations – South, Central and...

The Belgian chapter of Greenpeace has criticised the environment ministers of the three regions and the federal government concerning an agreement on climate change. Details were leaked this week on the share each party will take of the sale of carbon dioxide licences, as well as targets for the...

Postal deliveries should start returning to normal, after a week in which unions picketed sorting centres, preventing mail from going out. Earlier in the week, a court issued a ruling ordering unions to lift their pickets at centres in Brussels, Charleroi and Liège. “That means that people in the...

A new map listing 1,251 cafés in the Brussels-Capital Region - including the price of a beer in each - has been unveiled. An earlier version of the Caféplan, which dates from 2011 and highlights 455 cafés, was confined to the pentagon area, or centre of the city. The new version is the biggest map...

Brussels police stationed at the Heysel Parking A on Monday during the annual Megavino wine fair carried out alcohol checks on departing visitors. Out of a total of 354 drivers, five were found to have a blood alcohol level above the legal limit of 0.22 mg per litre. Between 14.30 and 16.30, the...

Belgium now has a centralised body in charge of cyber security. The Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), officially introduced on Monday by prime minister Charles Michel, is tasked with preventing and dealing with cyber security issues, while providing a platform for private and governmental...

The trial of the Church of Scientology has begun in Brussels, 18 years after the prosecutor’s office first opened an investigation. Both the Belgian and the European branches of the church, as well as 12 leading executives, face charges of bribery, extortion and unlawful practice of medicine. The...

The clocks have gone back, the dark nights are drawing in and Halloween weekend is among us again. Here are our tips for how to have a ghoulishly good time on (and around) 31 October in Brussels and beyond. 1. Bruxelles Mon Horreur! On Halloween night the spirits are out and about. This event will...

Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Sunday launched a new route between Brussels Airport and Tokyo's Narita Airport. It has been 15 years since there was a direction connection between the two capitals. ANA now flies daily at 20.15 from Brussels to Tokyo. ANA's Boeing 787 Dreamliner...