Sources: Xinhua
Nineteen-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford returns to Kortrijk, Belgium, to complete her five-month circumnavigation, becoming the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world. 2022-01-20
Belgium announces that easing of major COVID-19-related restrictions will be put on hold for another week due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections and the spread of the Lineage B.1.1.7 variant. 2021-02-26
Highest-ever temperatures are recorded in Germany (at 40.5°C or 104.9°F), the Netherlands (at 39.2°C or 102.5°F), and Belgium (at 38.9°C or 102.0°F). 2019-07-24
One person is killed and 20 are injured when a passenger train derails near Leuven, Belgium. 2017-02-18
Belgian prosecutors hand over Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, to French authorities. 2016-04-27
Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, "... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece." 2016-03-20
Belgium holds a day of national mourning in memory of the victims of the Sierre bus collision in Switzerland earlier this week. 2012-03-16
Hundreds of flights over Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are delayed by an air traffic control problem. 2010-08-20
A judge and court clerk are shot dead at the Law Courts of Brussels, the main courts in the Belgian capital. 2010-06-3
Belgium's King Albert accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme, ending his government's term and leading to early elections in June 2010. 2010-04-26