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With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. Complete Story...
The world's largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev SA said Thursday it made a $1.546 billion profit in the third quarter but that revenue fell 10 percent from last year, when the company was created in a merger, as beer sales shrank.
The world's biggest brewer AB InBev said Thursday it has agreed to sell its Central European operations to CVC Capital Partners in a transaction which could exceed $3 billion.
The Belgian government says a former detainee of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay has arrived in the country where he will be granted residency.
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, the world's largest brewer, said Thursday that it will raise $2.7 billion from selling its U.S. theme parks to the Blackstone Group.
Anheuser-Busch InBev says it will sell its U.S. theme parks to the Blackstone Group for $2.7 billion.
Belgian international food retailer Delhaize Group is in talks to buy shops and inventory worth $425 million from South Carolina-based BI-LO, a grocery chain that entered bankruptcy proceedings earlier this year.
Belgian royals and government officials joined the bishop of Honolulu at a Mass on Sunday to celebrate a 19th-century local hero, a week before he will become a saint for his work with lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
Solvay, the Belgian chemical and pharmaceutical group, said Monday it has agreed to sell its entire pharmaceutical business to Abbott Laboratories of Abbott Park, Illinois, for euro5.2 billion ($7.6 billion).
Police say two burglary suspects were killed after the excessive explosives they were using to break into a bank's safe blew up the whole building.
Two armed robbers made off with a $1.1 million painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte in a morning heist at a small museum in the Belgian capital on Thursday.
Belgium wants the European Union to investigate the sale of General Motors Co.'s European unit Opel amid misgivings Germany allegedly sought to protect its own plants at the cost of others.
Cases of euthanasia in Belgium's Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has shown.
The Belgian government says it has accepted a U.S. request to take in one detainee from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Anheuser-Busch InBev on Wednesday said second quarter profit rose 13 percent to $1.1 billion, helped by sales of stakes in brewing companies, but cautioned that the recession was flattening beer consumption in key markets worldwide.
A fire raged through a retirement home close to Brussels late Thursday, leaving nine people dead and three more in critical condition, officials said.
Belgian authorities were chasing three more escaped prisoners on Tuesday, bringing the total to 12 over the past two weeks.
Belgian authorities say they have recaptured a convict who escaped twice in as many weeks, including once from a Bruges prison by helicopter.
Belgian authorities say three inmates made a dramatic escape from prison by helicopter.
A joint World Cup bid by Belgium and the Netherlands to host either the 2018 or 2022 tournament will be considered by FIFA after all.
Anheuser-Busch InBev said Wednesday it will sell four U.S. packaging plants to Ball Corp. for $577 million to help pay off debt.
Greenpeace published a spoof edition of the International Herald Tribune on Thursday to highlight environmental issues and draw attention to the Copenhagen climate change conference in December.
Dick Advocaat looks set to take over as coach of the slumping Belgian national team, with only the final details of his contract to be finalized.
Brewer Anheuser Busch-InBev said Thursday it will raise $1.8 billion by selling South Korea's Oriental Brewery, the country's second largest, to private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP. to cut down on its huge debt burden.
Belgium asked the World Court on Monday to order Senegal to keep one of Africa's most notorious former dictators under house arrest to prevent him fleeing justice.
The Truth About Belgium.For too long we have been told lies. The existence of the supposed European country of Belgium has been taken as gospel for years by members of the Liberati. It has long been held up as a shining example of Liberal philosophies in action.
Europe's First President Selected! Tony Blair rejected in favor of Belgian, Herman van Rompuy - UK's Catherine Ashton named Foreign Policy ChiefEU leaders have chosen the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy, to be the first permanent European Council President, diplomats say. The other top job created by the Lisbon Treaty - foreign affairs supremo - will go to the EU Trade Commissioner, Baroness Catherine Ashton f …
François Houtart & Abdul Sattar Edhi share 2009 UNESCO Tolerance, Non-violence PrizeProfessor François Houtart (Belgium, President of the Brussells Tribunal on Iraq) and Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) are to share 2009 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.
Vagabondish Citizen of the Week, Dead Giveaway EditionThis week's candidates: the Belgium one-legged man who stole a single shoe, the central Pennsylvania pothead with weed stuck to his head, the masked Iowa duo with permanent marker disguises, and the South Dakota bank thief who listed "robbery" as his official occupation.
Works and Days: The Power of Payback for ObamaObama is now caught and tumbling to or below 50% approval.
Bank robbers killed in dynamite blast in Belgium The attempts of two men on Friday to rob a bank in Dinant, Wallonia, went spectacularly wrong when they used too much dynamite to blow open a cash machine.
Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978This is a very good look at one intervention of former colonial powers in post colonial Africa by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas P. Odom of the Command and General Staff College, US Army Combined Arms Center.
Thieves steal Magritte nude from Belgian museumTwo men, one armed with what appeared to be a pistol, stole a painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte from a Brussels museum on Thursday morning.
Belgian farmers in milk lake protestDairy farmers poured three million litres of milk into a Belgian field in a bid to highlight their desperation over falling prices.
Tintin 'to be sued' for Congo bookI adore Tintin and grew up watching the cartoon. But some of the cartoons perpetuate racial stereotypes.Publishers dismiss the pain these racist images are causing. Why does the double standard continue?
T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'An entertaining and informative account of various systems used in other industrialized nations, from a journalist who had first-person experiences as a patient in a number of countries.
"Black Widow" Spider Starting To Thrive In Belgium The Black Widow, a very poisonous kind of spider, is becoming more common in Belgium.
Muslim scholars support India's fight against terrorMumbai: Religious scholars and political experts from several Muslim and Arab countries Sunday endorsed India's fight against terrorism as they participated in a seminar held at the Taj hotel, the scene of last year's brutal terror attacks.
A fog swirls in the Hindu KushThe 19th century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in his famous work, On War, "The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - …
Diplomacy for Visa LustThe currently imposed radical visa strategy is a part of Nazism, which is imposed by so called developed world over the developing country.
It really did. She placed a piece of paper under the tree's branches and attached an ink-dipped brush to a bough. Then she gave the tree some quiet time. When she returned, the tree had conspired with the wind to whip out a naturally flowing design of flicks and lashes.
Fears of an Islamic revolt in Europe begin to fade The dire predictions of religious and identity-based mayhem reached their peak between 2004 and 2006, when bombs exploded in Madrid and London, a controversial film director was shot and stabbed to death in Amsterdam, and angry demonstrators marched against publication of satiric …
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Paralysed girl's story reflects Gaza's plightJust 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.
Copyright Group Prosecuted For Failing to Pay ArtistsThe attorney general in Brussels has concluded a three year investigation into the money trails at the the local music royalty collecting agency SABAM.
Google's Chiller-less Data CentreGoogle (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger factor in its data center management.
Whomever said train stations can or are boring, were not always correct. I would have LOVED to have seen this as it happened
Ghent goes vegetarian nteresting story about Ghent in today's Guardian. The powers that be in the Flemish town have decided to promote eating vegetarian for one day every week, proclaiming Thursday "Veggie Dag".
Belgian @!$%#es often too fatA survey carried out by the popular Flemish dog owners' website "I care for my dog" shows that one in three Flemish hounds is overweight.
Tattoo gone wrong: Stars and gripes forever?A Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlor with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Tattoos leave teenager seeing starsA Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlour with 56 stars over one side of her face rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors have said. Update:
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