They are the naughty gnomes, the original blue man group, the evergreen imps. They are, of course, the Smurfs.

It was one of the largest prisoner-of-war (POW) camps in western Europe, holding nearly 60,000 Germans from March 1945 to August 1946. Yet today Prisoner-of-War Camp 2228 looks like a non-descript ...

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 ...

Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone are jazz legends, but in the 1960s, they were unwittingly used as decoys by the United States to deflect attention from its role in its meddling in ...

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, ...

Electric cars are involved in 50% more traffic accidents than their petrol and diesel counterparts, according to a study by insurer Axa. The high number of accidents has actually nothing to do with ...

Police are still searching for the gunmen following the early morning shooting at a Brussels Metro station on Wednesday. The incident had a major impact on public transport for a large part of the day ...

Belgium's politics is famously complicated, and people can often no longer see the forest for the trees. Therefore, The Brussels Times will provide an overview of the different political parties, how ...

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 ...

A deepfake video showing Belgium's prime minister speaking of an urgent need to tackle the economic and climate crises has been put into circulation by Extinction Rebellion Belgium. Published on ...

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 ...

Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations. Not only does AI ...