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, ...

In its 16th-century pomp, Antwerp was at the hub of the known world. It was a cauldron of emperors, heretics, spies and killer bankers, all stirring religious, sexual and intellectual scandals.

Imagine: you're naked, you're on stage in a big tent. Not only is the tent filled with fully clothed people watching you, but they are all laughing, jeering and drinking. Many of them are also ...

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 is home to several education systems, with one for each language community (French, Dutch and German), as well as religious and secular establishments. If this weren't enough, there are also ...

Not so long ago, passengers getting off the train at Brussels-Midi station would be enveloped by the smell of chocolate. Until the 1990s, Brussels-Midi station was home to the Cote D’Or chocolate ...

This week, Liverpool FC are back in Brussels for only the second time since the deadly Heysel Stadium Disaster on 29 May 1985 – where 39 football fans were killed because of fan trouble caused by ...

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, ...

It is fair to say that Laurent Simons is special. Last year, the 12-year-old child prodigy received his bachelor's degree in physics with distinction from the University of Antwerp, after completing ...

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 ...

Feared and reviled down the centuries, freemasons are still treated with suspicion. Seven starving Belgian political prisoners sat around a table in barrack Number 6, a wooden hut in the Nazi ...

Ukraine's military intelligence agency claims it faked the reported death of an anti-Kremlin commander in order to stop an assassination plot by Moscow. Denis Kapustin, the leader of the Russian ...