Amid growing tensions over the final vote for the EU presidency, the French-language regional newspaper La Capitale offered a list of our most irritat...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
Britain last night secured the job of the EU's first "foreign minister" for Baroness Ashton of Upholland after Belgian Prime Minister Herman...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
Maité Roël is just 26 and she is the youngest victim of the First World War. And when she walks to meet me past the old churchyard in her ...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home
One is a young, dynamic reporter with a blond quiff who roams the world in search of adventure. The other is a greying, diminutive politicia...
Mark Lamster | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books
The painter Peter Paul Rubens has a good deal in common with Barack Obama, and the Old Master's life offers lessons that the president might well find instructive.
AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
PARIS — Lance Armstrong considers the 2010 Tour de France course "tough" because of the cobblestones sections and three punishing summit finishes in the Pyrenees.
The seven-time Tour champion attended the unveiling of the route and had lunch with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.
He also said more cyclists will have a chance to win thanks to the elimination of the team time trial.
"I think it will be much more open than last year because the TTT really eliminated some people last year and you won't have that again," Armstrong said. "Whereas this year you had three or four guys who could win the Tour, this year you'll go into the tough sections with 10 guys."
Armstrong finished third at this year's Tour after an intense rivalry with Astana teammate Alberto Contador, the eventual winner.
Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living
I'm so glad we have the Internet to feed us so, so much well-edited, well-culled information.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Johann Hari | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
For small sums, vulture funds buy debts racked up years ago by the poorest countries on earth. Then they take the poor country to court, and demand exorbitant and crippling returns from the debtor nations.
AP | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
MELLE, Belgium — A fire raged through a retirement home close to Brussels late Thursday, leaving nine people dead and three more in critical con...
Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
Bogaert remains in limbo. He cannot leave Qatar. He cannot work for another company in Qatar without permission from his sponsor. He has not been paid since last June.
AP | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities say three inmates made a dramatic escape from prison by helicopter. Bruges prosecutor's office spokesman Marc Fl...
Guardian | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Huge decline in the gem trade is affecting a small, ethnically diverse district in Belgium...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
LONDON — A volatile mix of apathy, anger and economic uncertainty translated into gains for extreme-right parties in European parliamentary elec...
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment
The critical consensus is as strong as I've ever seen at Cannes: the best film of the Festival is Une Prophete. Mind you, that doesn't mean the jury will pick it.
BBC | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
Starting this week there will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councillors will opt for vegetarian meals. Ghent ...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.13.2009 | Comedy
A video of almost 200 people taking over Antwerpen's Centraal Station in Belgium and doing a carefully choreographed dance to the Do Re Mi song (aka M...
Earthtimes | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
A broad majority in the Swedish parliament Wednesday approved adoption of same-sex marriage legislation after a six-hour debate. Six of the seven part...
Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 04.18.2009 | Home
Never one to limit himself to a genre, J.J. Abrams is jumping out of the bold world of outer space and into a different sort of action. The Hollywood ...
AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green
BRUSSELS — Belgium opened a new 20 million euro ($26 million) "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the c...
BBC NEWS | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
The Belgian man charged with killing two babies and a nurse at a creche near Brussels is also suspected of killing an elderly woman, officials have sa...
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
DENDERMONDE, Belgium — A young man with a gruesomely painted black-and-white face went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbin...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?
Telegraph | Published: 1:03PM GMT 18 Nov 2009 | Posted 11.20.2009 | World