
London: Kevin De Bruyne became the third Belgian youngster to join Chelsea in the space of six months after completing a move to the English Premier League giants from Racing Genk on Tuesday, the last day of the winter transfer window. The 20-year-old winger, who has been tracked by Chelsea for some time, signed a 5-year deal for a reported fee of 9 million Pounds, but will return to Belgian...

04:43 PM, Jan 31, 2012

New York: Fitch Ratings on Friday warned it may downgrade Belgium, Italy, and four other euro zone countries in the absence of a "comprehensive solution" to the region's debt crisis. The ratings agency placed the ratings of Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Cyprus in credit watch negative, which means a downgrade is possible within three months. ...

09:37 AM, Dec 17, 2011

Lirge: A man armed with grenades and an assault rifle attacked holiday shoppers on Tuesday at a central square in the Belgian city of Liege. Five people died, including the attacker, and 122 others were wounded, officials said. It was not immediately clear what motivated the attack in the busy Place Saint-Lambert square, the central entry point to downtown shopping streets in the city in eastern Belgium. The attack prompted...

12:48 AM, Dec 14, 2011

Two people have been killed and at least 10 wounded on Tuesday in a hand grenade attack in the eastern Belgian city of Liege. ...

07:58 PM, Dec 13, 2011

Brussels: Belgian news organizations are reporting that two people have been killed and at least 10 wounded on Tuesday in a hand grenade attack in the eastern Belgian city of Liege. Belgian media reported that one of the two dead was believed to be the assailant, a man believed to be about 40 years old. New reports said that at about 12:30 local time (6:30 am EDT) the man lobbed...

06:31 PM, Dec 13, 2011

Brussels: Tintin came home to Belgium on Saturday for the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn'. If the proverbial intrepid reporter was more than a cartoon and movie character, he would have been pushing and shoving amid all the other hometown reporters lining the red carpet. Instead, Tintin and his creator, the late Herge, were the stars of the show, and Belgian Princess...

02:02 PM, Oct 23, 2011

New York: A US-based Sikh advocacy group has approached the Belgium government seeking criminal prosecution and arrest of Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, who is scheduled to visit Belgium next week, for his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. In a letter sent to Belgium Prime Minister Yves Leterme, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) has said Nath should be denied entry into the country and criminal prosecution must be initiated...

06:13 PM, Oct 07, 2011

Geneva: After France, Netherlands and Belgium, Switzerland is now on its way to become the fourth country in Europe to impose a ban on burqa, with lawmakers on Thursday voting for a far-right move to outlaw face veils in public. Swiss parliamentarians turned inwards on the sensitive issue of immigration on Thursday by endorsing a bill authored by a politician of a far-right party, that seeks to ban the wearing...

09:19 AM, Sep 29, 2011

Belgium: A storm swept through a popular open-air music festival in this town eastern Belgium on Thursday killing at least three people and injuring more than 70 others, an official said. Ambulances and police cars raced to and from the site of the Pukkelpop festival, near the town of Hasselt, 50 miles east of Brussels, late Thursday, their sirens blaring. Concertgoers described scenes of panic as the sky darkened, the...

03:32 AM, Aug 19, 2011

Brussels: Google blocked several Belgian newspapers from its web search results Friday in what the papers called retaliation over a copyright infringement lawsuit. Google said an order issued in the case required it to exclude the newspapers' websites. The newspapers filed a lawsuit against Google in 2006 claiming the web giant had no right to post links to their articles on Google News without payment or permission. They won, and...

01:32 PM, Jul 16, 2011

London: The middle-aged happen to be the grumpiest of the lot because happiness follows a U-shaped curve during one's lifetime, experts say. Overall satisfaction begins to drop as early as late twenties and does not begin to recover until well past 50 years, says Bert van Landeghem of the Maastricht University in Belgium. While young adults are carefree and full of hope and the over 50s have come to terms...

10:35 AM, Apr 19, 2011

Brussels: Many would see it as a humiliation, but for Belgium it's an excuse for a party - the country's citizens are marking 249 days without a government on Thursday, a figure that they are treating as a world record. Day to day the crisis pits the leaders of 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings against those of 4.5 million French speakers, but people from across the country are putting aside their...

04:57 PM, Feb 17, 2011

Herman Van Rompuy will become the face of European Union. ...

02:03 PM, Nov 20, 2009

Dairy farmers sprayed 3 million litres of fresh milk onto fields in protest. ...

11:38 AM, Sep 17, 2009

Kim Clijsters defeated Caroline Wozniacki to win the US Open title. ...

10:23 AM, Sep 17, 2009