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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Beliris presidents Didier Reynders and Laurette Onkelinx appeared on Tuesday afternoon before the Brussels Parliament’s special Metro 3 commission, which is investigating the management of the ...

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 ...

Historian Herman Van Goethem, rector of Antwerp University and a former director of Kazerne Dossin, the Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in Mechelen, spent 14 years of his life writing a book about ...

"No, I am not a poisoner," anaesthetist Frédéric Péchier proclaimed one last time before the Doubs Assise Court in France withdrew to deliberate on Monday after three and a half months of gruelling ...

The number of non-fundable students in universities has risen sharply in two years, but the number of appeals that were successfully resolved has also increased, according to figures released on ...

The Russian central bank has filed a lawsuit to reclaim 18.2 trillion roubles, around €200 billion, from the Belgian financial institution Euroclear, the Russian news agency Tass reported on Monday.