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Pupils from Belgian French-medium schools and French pupils have taken their protests against cuts to education funding to the streets of the Belgian and Flemish capital.

Brussels’ three largest railway stations remain the busiest in the country, according to the new counting method used by Belgium’s state-owned train operator NMBS.

The cuttlefish (or sepia) has been named Flemish 'Fish of the Year' by the Flemish Agro and Fish Marketing Centre, though it is really a cephalopod like squid and octopus.

Due to a fall in the number of people moving in from abroad and a large number of people moving to Flanders and Wallonia, the population of the Brussels Region has not grown for the first time in 30 years.

Antwerp local police are to arrest known troublemakers more quickly, even if they are not doing anything wrong at the time.

For some time now VRT’s consumer programme WinWin has been receiving complaints from people experiencing problems with the ATMs at Belgian CASH points.

We’ll still be enjoying maximum temperatures of up to 24 degrees for a while yet, but then the weather will take a turn for the worse: the RMI is forecasting rain, thunderstorms and wind from this evening onwards.

Flemish physicist Francis Halzen says he was completely taken aback when he heard the news of his win of this year’s Nobel Prize for physics: “It was a huge surprise; I hadn’t expected it at all,” Halzen said via a telephone link during the press conferen…

In Spain, the way is now clear for the return of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the Flemish particle physicist Francis Halzen (82) from Tienen (Flemish Brabant).

American singer-songwriter Sombr is coming to Rock Werchter next year, the festival has announced.

Canadian rock star Bryan Adams is set to appear at the next edition of the Lokerse Feesten in the East Flemish town of Lokeren.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the M HKA welcomed a strikingly higher number of visitors in the first few months following Culture Minister Caroline Gennez’s Museum Plan.

By DANIELLA MATAR - AP Sports Writer France left it late to beat Belgium 4-1 in the Nations League as Zinedine Zidane got his first home win as the national coach on Monday.

On Saturday, another Palestinian hunger striker was taken from the Church of St John the Baptist at the Beguinage in central Brussels to hospital.

The Brussels government has reached an agreement on the Brussels Region’s 2027 budget.

A 13th-century mural of Christ in the St Nicholas Church in Ghent is undergoing a thorough restoration.

The personal data of 700,000 people, sourced from a database belonging to the Walloon training network IFAPME, has been made available online for free on a forum on the dark web.

From 1 January, Belgian postal services provider Bpost is increasing rates for sending letters and parcels.

Belgium’s federal police are conducting an investigation, on behalf of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), into former Belgian Prime Minister and former Euro MP Guy Verhofstadt (Flemish liberal Anders).

Yesterday evening the Brussels regional government reached agreement on the Brussels Region’s 2027 budget.

Creamery De Zuivelarij from Berlare (East Flanders) has won the 2026 BioVLAM award.

The seaside resort of Ostend (West Flanders) is pulling out all the stops this winter with the second edition of ‘Lichtgolf’ (Light Wave).

More and more Flemings – around 44 per cent of the adult population -rarely or never drink alcohol.

The international drug network had been smuggling cocaine and cannabis via Brussels Airport for many years.

The Design Museum Gent, in the East Flanders' capital, is set to reopen this coming weekend after four years of renovations.

Leuven University is warning students and parents about fraud relating to tuition fee payments.

Unia is preparing legal action against Nathan Cofnas, the controversial researcher at Ghent University.

The first artworks have arrived at Kanal in Brussels.

Raïan Hachem, aged 23, has been arrested in Tourcoing, France, Belgium’s federal police have revealed.

Starting from 1 October, energy suppliers will no longer be permitted to offer ‘deceptive discounts’ on energy contracts.

Flemish Prime Minister Matthias Diependaele (Flemish nationalist N-VA) has unveiled the details of the Flemish government’s budget accord.

A political crisis has been averted: Flemish government parties, Flemish nationalist N-VA, Christian democrat CD&V and socialist Vooruit have approved next year’s budget as well as the related calculations.

In Hasselt (Limburg Province), on Tuesday, a nest containing around 2,000 Asian hornets was removed from the playground of a primary school.

From 1 October, anyone visiting the dentist would be well advised to carry their identity card with them.

The city of Bruges, capital of West Flanders, is continuing its crackdown on illegal holiday accommodation.

By the end of the year, Belgium will deliver three F-16 fighter-jets to Ukraine.

The former leader of the terrorist group Sharia4Belgium, Fouad Belkacem, has applied for asylum in Belgium.

27.6 degrees Celsius was recorded at the Met Office in Ukkel (Brussels) on Tuesday, breaking the previous record for this day in September set in 2011.

Inflation, the figure that reflects the general rise in price levels, has risen further to 4.69 per cent.

Hackers have stolen personal data from 150,000 members of the Jims fitness chain.

With hybrid attacks on the rise, Russia is attempting to undermine European support for Ukraine, both directly and indirectly, says Belgium’s Chief of Defence Frederik Vansina.

More electric bikes are now being sold than ordinary bikes, and 45 per cent of households in Flanders already own an electric bike according to figures from Fietsberaad, the advisory body on cycling policy.

The Bioscape research campus in Edegem, near Antwerp University is not going ahead after all.

The City of Brussels intends to tighten the rules for businesses around the capital’s historic market square, the Grote Markt, in order to create greater diversity in the range of shops on offer.

The Leuven Public Prosecutor’s Office is seeking up to 15 months’ imprisonment for four people accused of defrauding Prince Laurent, King Filip’s brother, and his half-British wife Princess Claire.

Talks on next year’s Flemish government budget are not going smoothly and the stress is starting to tell.

For the time being, Antwerp Cathedral will not be getting a second tower made of beams of light.

In Denderleeuw (East Flanders), the bodies of a 51-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter have been recovered from a property.

A year’s study at a Flemish university or polytechnic has become almost 50% more expensive than 10 years ago.