Raikkonen wins F1's Belgian GP for 4th time

Kimi Raikkonen held off Force India driver Giancarlo Fisichella to win Formula One's Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, the Ferrari driver's fourth triumph at the high-speed track in the past five years.

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Massa wins Belgian GP after Hamilton is penalized

Felipe Massa was declared the winner of Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton was penalized for cutting a corner during a late duel with world champion Kimi Raikkonen.

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Bud fans weigh possible Belgian takeover

More than any other beer, Budweiser is an American icon: Its Clydesdale horses are fixtures of Super Bowl ads, and even the label is red, white and blue, with an eagle swooping through the "A" for Anheuser-Busch.

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Nudist air travel not cleared for take-off

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Belgian Grand Prix Dropped for 2006

The Belgian Grand Prix was dropped from this year's Formula One schedule but might be restored in 2007 once improvements are made to the course.

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Two Belgian bankrobbers have been named the Darwin Award winners of the year after killing themselves while trying to crack open a cash machine.

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Belgian Case Reignites 'Brain Dead' Debate as Catholics Order Force Feedings Church Orders Patient Final Directives to be Ignored; Critics Say Dogma Trumps Dignity _______________________ COH applied

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A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged. For years he listened to the conversations going on around him but he was unable to communicate with his doctors or family.

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It began when Belgian customs officials examined shipping records for dozens of giant tanker trucks that outlined an odd, triangular journey across Europe.

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BBC Magazine article by Richard Knight fact checks a xenophobic and anti-Muslim propaganda video which claims that Muslims will take over Europe and install Islamic Emirates.

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Just thought this story was extremely moving. About a young girl's rehabilitation who lost two sisters by alleged Israeli fire and was herself paralyzed. Once there's some sort of progress (she won't likely be able to walk by herself again), she'll be sent back to Gaza.

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A survey carried out by the popular Flemish dog owners' website "I care for my dog" shows that one in three Flemish hounds is overweight.

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He ended up under a train following an incident at Dinant railway station in Namur on Saturday. An elderly passenger attempted to mount a train that was about to leave the station. The 70-year-old used a door that was open for the train guard.

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A 93-year-old Belgian woman has died after going on a 10-day hunger strike last month to force doctors to help her die, her family said.

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An armed group had kidnapped a Belgian businessmen at a nightclub in the beach of Mexican Caribbean, local daily Milenio reported Sunday.

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The Belgian government on Monday night became the first national administration to fall as a direct result of events linked to the global financial crisis.

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Members of a Belgian television crew described Saturday how they were violently attacked in the central Chinese province of Henan while making a documentary about AIDS patients.

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A couple face ten years in prison after selling their newborn baby on the Internet. The couple - a man aged 26 and woman aged 24 who already had another child - are currently under investigation by police and social services in the Belgium town of Ghent.

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Belgian Rail is offering a free breakfast to commuters in the biggest rail stations this week. The initiative was set up to thank travellers for the trust they put in rail staff.

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French trawler men hurled stones and abuse at their Belgian colleagues and the French navy had to attend the scene to rescue the Belgian vessel. The French are angry that they are subject to regulations that do not apply to their Belgian counterparts.

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Belgians next week will discover the culinary secrets behind trout in butter sauce, as a television cooking show focuses on Adolf Hitler's "favourite meal" in a controversial programming choice.

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We've got some rather shocking news this afternoon for those of you who've spent years believing you're Austrian, Belgian, Danish or Dutch - you're not. In fact, you're German, as this map from Google's comic book guide to Chrome proves:

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It's like a scene from a psychedelic dream or some cheese-induced nightmare. But the bizarre sight of almost 400 grown men, women and children covered head to foot in blue paint wearing white trousers and floppy white hats is actually a serious record-breaking attempt.

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With deep divisions between its French and Dutch speakers, not to mention a ludicrously complex administrative system, it's a wonder Belgium has stayed united for so long. Now, after 156 days without a national government, the country is heading for meltdown.

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Two criminals have gone on the run in Belgium after their accomplices crash-landed a helicopter in the prison yard to create a distraction. One of those who escaped is Nordine Ben Allal - a man already known as "The Escape King" because of his history of prison breaks.

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A Belgian businessman rejected a Nigerian job applicant because of the color of his skin. But he insisted he wasn't racist -- it was his dog that was the bigot, he said. The labor office in Belgium was not convinced.

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Two years ago, Allagash Brewing Company's Rob Tod was bottling his Belgian Tripel ale, when he faced a brewer's darkest nightmare: He was short on bottles, which meant he'd—the horror!—need to dump his beer.

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Bad news for Google in BelgiumCourt reaffirms order to post ruling forbidding Belgian Google News from reproducing article summaries; appeal was part of broader attempt to overturn entire case.September 22 2006: 12:24 PM EDT LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) -- Google Inc.

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The US Treasury's Terrorist Finance Tracking programme had violated the privacy of up to 7,800 international financial institutions in its secret trawl through financial records held by the Belgian firm SWIFT

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From The Independent (UK): France - Neanderthal finds are like prehistoric buses.

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