The powder letter that was delivered to Belgian politician Theo Francken on New Year's Eve contained flour and plastic. This confirms the Leuven prosecutor's office after reporting in Het Nieuwsblad. There is a...
Dutch tourists, especially young women, no longer have to travel to remote areas in Muslim countries alone, says Montasser AlDe'emeh. The Belgian-Palestinian jihad expert and...
A couple from Leuven in Belgium have been sentenced to two years in prison after plundering their grandmother's account in the nursing home. In total, the thieves made over 253,000 euros from the weaker family member booty.
In 41 Belgian cities and municipalities Sunday is not allowed to take the road by car. On the car-free Sunday, numerous activities take place with regard to sustainability, the environment and health.
Flemish youths have mistreated two kittens so severely that one of the young kittens has not survived. A woman intervened and prevented the second creature from having the same fate.
The Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro became famous with spectacular robots that he accurately modeled himself to the pore. 'The more human the robot, the easier we communicate with it,' he says.
The mystery surrounding the 24-year-old hairdresser Julie Quintens has been solved. The young blond hairdresser from Tienen in Belgium was found dead in her apartment, after which her father begged for clarity. That has come.
Physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a scientific article just before his death. That is now posthumously published in the journal Journal of High Energy Physics. The article was approved for publication shortly before his death. Hawking died on March 14 at the age of 76.
King Filip hopes to reach New York this week, which King Willem-Alexander achieved only three years earlier; the Belgian king is going to try to win enough souls to give Belgium a seat in the Security Council of the United Nations for two years from 2019 onwards.
The lawyers of former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont and his former Minister Toni Comin have filed a complaint against a Spanish television channel.
Kevin De Bruyne has the police behind him. At least, the lookalike of the Belgian international. The Leuven police are looking for the duplicate of Manchester City's football player, because on 16 March he would have been involved in a bicycle accident in the same city.
You do not smell it, you do not see it and especially you do not taste it. That makes it so dangerous. A pill of Rohypnol or a few milliliters of GHB in your drink will be enough to be out of the world for hours.
An ambulance driver has left a patient in Belgium in his ambulance. The man had fled in panic because of a collision, the television channel VTM reported on Sunday. The police picked it up later.
The Catalan ex-prime minister and foreman of separatists in the region, Carles Puigdemont, seems to be tired of his political role. Spanish media spread on Wednesday a sort of farewell message that Puigdemont would have sent to party and ex-minister Antoni Comín: 'It's over, we've sacrificed ourselves, the Moncloa has triumphed.'
A Belgian person in his twenties who turned out to be a research student at the KU Leuven has, with a false survey, extracted at least 26 young women from all kinds of sexual confessions. VTM NEWS reports that. Two underage girls also passed intimate images. One of the victims anonymously tells her story to VTM News. 'Then you feel a bit fooled.'
Once again a young man died from a strangulation. 24-year-old Wesley Denivel was found in her bathroom by his grandmother on December 20th.
A Belgian bus driver who was fed up with the need to push the stop button unnecessarily passed all stops. His employer, bus company De Lijn, has tapped the man.
The University of Leuven says to be able to calculate the risk of a first-year student developing a mental illness or becoming addicted to alcohol.
A large Flemish research team has been working for nine years on a study with remarkable results: sugar causes tumors to grow and aggravates cancer. 'A sugar-free diet is for a cancer patient, therefore no unnecessary luxury,' says Professor Johan Thevelein in Het Nieuwsblad.
The Catholic University of Leuven has removed the name of Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a chair. According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, the founders of the chair find that the Nobel laureate winner is no longer a positive example because she does not express enough views on the Rohingya crisis. In the meantime, more than half a million people from the Islamic minority group have been killed for the violence of the government army.
In Ostend on Tuesday, three passengers were sent to hospital on a Tuesday after their car crashed after a flight for alcohol control. Among the victims are two girls from Leuven who were picked up for that while lifting. They had missed their last tram.
The 49-year-old both surgeons Mehrnaz D. of Leuven, has known her daughter (14) Eline to have killed. That reports Belgian media. How Eline has just been killed is not yet clear. The friend Mehrnaz D. Wednesday afternoon found her lifeless body in the apartment of the woman in Leuven and called the police.
A 37-year old Belgian cell must because his five-month old baby was strangled because they cried when he was gaming. Only thanks to the quick actions of the doctor the baby survived.
In an action against motorcycle Satudarah in Belgium, police arrested seven suspects. Six homes and two clubhouses were searched this week, where a counterfeit Kalashnikov, balaclavas, masks, thirty melee weapons, knives, pepper spray, body armor and a half kilos of cannabis were seized.
The train that derailed last month when the Belgian Leuven drove much too fast. In the accident were dead and 27 wounded.
At the station of Leuven in Belgium is a train derailed. In addition, according to a spokesman for rail company NMB cases several wounded.
The distance between the moon and the Earth is at present annually by 3.8 centimeters, but there goes according to experts to change in the future. And that will be associated with catastrophic consequences. That report American media.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday in Brussels, gown, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent and Leuven. She receives an honorary doctorate for 'its diplomatic and political efforts to build the political strength of Europe and to defend the values that enable our continent to still find unity in diversity.'
A major lawsuit in Belgium against members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK seems to be shelved. The court on Thursday all defendants for trial in Brussels. The Public Prosecutor may still appeal this decision.
"The Belgian authorities have broken up a smuggling organization that brought summer Iraqis to Belgium from last year to seek asylum. In raids in Brussels, Leuven and Verviers were arrested two weeks ago ten suspects. Four of them are still in prison, federal police said Tuesday."
