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Seven years ago eight out of ten Dutch schoolchildren could tell a joke - but now less than half can even think of a one according to a study at Leuven university in Belgium.

14th seed Milos Raonic will face Xavier Malisse of Belgium in the first round

Everton goalkeeper Jan Mucha is wanted by Dinamo Zagreb. Mucha, 30, is out of contract this summer and is attracting interest from Belgium and Holland.

Robert Reimann watched the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 and then observed as his office nearby destroyed as the towers fell. Then he did something few Americans considered at the time: He took a bike tour across Iran. "I wanted to see a Muslim country and see what people in that part of the world were actually thinking vs....

US researchers analysed tooth of a 10-12 year-old child that lived in a cave in Belgium around 100,000 years ago - and found it it was breastfed exclusively for seven months followed by seven months of supplementation.

Thomas Vermaelen fears he may have to leave Arsenal to keep alive hopes of playing in the World Cup for Belgium. Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker are Arsenal’s first-choice partnership and manager Arsene Wenger may sign Swansea defender Ashley Williams this summer.

Declines in the biodiversity of pollinating insects and wild plants have slowed in recent years, according to a new study. Researchers found evidence of dramatic reductions in the diversity of species in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands between the 1950s and 1980s. But the picture brightened markedly after 1990, with a slowdown in local and national biodiversity losses...

Brussels, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) - Crop Protection industry rolls-out new scheme for water and biodiversity protection Building on a growing portfolio of stewardship initiatives to ensure sustainable use of pesticides, the crop protection industry is embarking on a new campaign to promote …

SumUp, one of the myriad European Square-style mobile card reader startups, has expanded its coverage footprint by rolling into an 11th European market: Russia. SumUp is now operational in the U.K., Germany, Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium and Russia, giving it a larger geographical footprint than other European rivals including...

Belgium is bringing its top players to the United States for a friendly match in Cleveland on May 29.    

Pregnancy hasn't slowed Beyoncé down one bit. Well, exhaustion may have kept her from performing in Belgium, but she was back onstage Friday when the Mrs. Carter Show World...

Pregnancy hasn't slowed Beyoncé down one bit. Well, exhaustion may have kept her from performing in Belgium, but she was back onstage Friday when the Mrs. Carter Show World...

Beyoncé is back in the groove, and not even her doctors could hold her back. The singer hit the stage in Antwerp, Belgium, Wednesday, a day after pulling the plug on her scheduled...

Beyoncé is back in the groove, and not even her doctors could hold her back. The singer hit the stage in Antwerp, Belgium, Wednesday, a day after pulling the plug on her scheduled...

Navtronics, a Belgium ESA Business Incubation Centre start-up company, is tailoring intelligent guidance for agricultural machinery using advanced satnav.

Singer Beyoncé was forced to cancel her show in Antwerp, Belgium, because of dehydration and exhaustion, her representatives Sportpaleis have said.

Beyonce has apologized to her fans for postponing her Tuesday show in Antwerp, Belgium.

Beyonce Tuesday added fuel to the rumors that she's carrying her second child, as the superstar had to cancel a concert in Belgium citing "exhaustion and dehydration," according to published reports.

(Reuters) - Singer Beyonce was forced to cancel her show in Antwerp, Belgium, on Tuesday because of dehydration and exhaustion, her representatives and concert venue Sportpaleis said.

Inneresting… we don’t quite know what to make of this. Is Ke$ha being nice by going out of her way to bring her dance-tastic music to some of the less-populated towns, or is this pop singer’s career totally backsliding?? Ke$ha is already touring this summer with Pitbull, but she just announced her own headlining North America [...]

Beyoncé has canceled her concert in Belgium tonight due to dehydration and exhaustion The Ass[...]

Pictures showing the singer with a rounded tummy on stage in London appear to show the 31-year-old with a small baby bump.

A publicist said the singer was ordered by her doctors to rest, but she plans to resume performing Wednesday.    

Beyonce is canceling her Tuesday concert in Belgium because of dehydration and exhaustion.

Belgium-based photographer Manon Wethly filled up a series of containers with different liquids before tossing them in the air and capturing the effect on her camera.

A team of translation scholars from the Department for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna, in collaboration with terminologists from the Austrian Parliamentary Administration, the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC, Italy), the language technology enterprise ESTeam (Sweden) and translation experts from CrossLang (Belgium), contributes to improving the management,...

The Belgium international insists that he would rather achieve his dreams of Champions League football at Goodison Park despite speculation following David Moyes' departure

AZ's director Earnie Stewart says Altidore could be available for upcoming friendlies against Belgium and Germany but wants to work in rest for the young striker.

A growing number of art collectors in Belgium — especially those favoring Contemporary works — are finding ways to share their collections with the public.    

Members of two radical Islamist cells dismantled at the weekend in northern Morocco wanted "to carry out jihadist attacks" in the kingdom and had contacts in Spain and Belgium, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Members of two radical Islamist cells dismantled at the weekend in northern Morocco wanted "to carry out jihadist attacks" in the kingdom and had contacts in Spain and Belgium, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Belgian, French and Swiss police have recovered part of a spectacular $50-million diamond heist in gems and cash and made multiple arrests in a vast cross-border operation, Belgian officials said Wednesday.

Investigators in three countries continued unraveling the plot behind a brazen $50 million diamond robbery in Belgium in February.    

A lack of match action means that alterations are at a minimum, although Belgium, Switzerland and Mexico are among the most notable movers.

Belgian, French and Swiss police have recovered part of a spectacular $50-million diamond heist in gems and cash and made multiple arrests in a vast cross-border operation, Belgian officials said Wednesday.

Belgian, French and Swiss police have recovered part of a spectacular $50-million diamond heist in gems and cash and made multiple arrests in a vast cross-border operation, Belgian officials said Wednesday.

Belgian, French and Swiss police have recovered part of a spectacular $50-million diamond heist in gems and cash and made multiple arrests in a vast cross-border operation, Belgian officials said Wednesday.

Suspects detained in France, Belgium, Switzerland over runway robbery    

The arrests were made in France, Switzerland and Belgium following the spectacular robbery at Brussels Airport (pictured) in February.

Belgian, French and Swiss police have recovered part of a spectacular $50-million diamond heist in gems and cash and made multiple arrests in a vast cross-border operation, Belgian officials said Wednesday.

Hundreds of officers investigating theft from aircraft on tarmac at Zaventem airport conduct raids in three countries and seize gems and cash

Authorities detained at least 31 people in a three-nation sweep about three months after robbers pulled off the theft with clockwork precision at Brussels Airport.    

The Belgium international, who missed his side's match against Manchester United on Sunday, is "fine" and will be available for the crucial top-four clash against Spurs.

The speedy U.S. right back is questionable for upcoming friendlies against Belgium and Germany after tearing a ligament in his left knee at FC Nuremberg.

A football agent from Belgium, represented by Bosman ruling lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont, is challenging UEFA’s financial fair play rules at the European Commission.

Eminent Belgian scientist Christian de Duve, a winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, died Saturday aged 95 after committing euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, his family said.

Eminent Belgian scientist Christian de Duve, aged 95, a winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, died on Saturday after committing euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, his family said.

Amateur video shot through the window of a nearby house shows a chemical-carrying freight train in flames after it derailed near the town of Wetteren in Belgium.    

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Belgian media say that hundreds of people were evacuated after a train carrying chemicals derailed and caught fire in northern Belgium....

It had been thought no-one was seriously injured in the explosion after the train came off tracks near the city of Ghent.

Robbers who had stolen a safe from a private home ditched it during a car chase to distract police. It smashed open and littered the Flemish town of Zedelgem with €50, €100 and €200 notes, which were quickly collected passers-by.

ZEDELGEM, Belgium (AP) -- On a Saturday evening two weeks ago in Zedelgem, townsfolk were disturbed by the wail of a siren and the shriek of tires, the din of a high-speed car chase that broke the tranquility of their sleepy city....

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West Ham are expected to send a delegation to Belgium today to pursue a move for teenager Alpaslan Ozturk. Ozturk, 19, is available on a free transfer after his club Beerschot were relegated from the top flight.

(Phys.org) —Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a disease that is almost always fatal in cattle. Cows contract MCF after coming into contact with wildebeest carrying a form of herpes virus known as alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1). In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Benjamin Dewals of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the...

Guests representing a broad section of the UK's Sikh community joined the PM to celebrate Vaisakhi with food, hymns, music and prayer

MECHELEN, Belgium (AP) -- From his city hall under Belgium's most imposing cathedral, Mayor Bart Somers is wracking his brains trying to figure out how to keep young Muslims from going to fight "holy war" in Syria against the Assad regime....

Madrid - Atos, an international information technologies services company, is the coordinating partner of the ARTIST European project, which is developing a set of methods, tools and techniques to fac...

EU member states vote ushers in continent-wide suspension of neonicotinoid pesticides • Have your say: is the EU right to ban pesticides?Europe will enforce the world's first continent-wide ban on widely used insecticides linked to serious harm in bees, after a European commission vote on Monday.The landmark suspension is a victory for millions of environment campaigners...

Royalty and media arrive to see Willem-Alexander succeed his mother, Queen Beatrix, who has followed tradition by abdicatingThe royal houses of Europe, more than 1,000 journalists and up to 1 million well-wishers are expected in Amsterdam on Tuesday for the inauguration of the country's first king in 122 years after his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicated.Despite her huge...

He's one of cinema's most visionary directors, and his films have shaped the way we see his country. So how does Pedro Almodóvar choose to portray Spain's catastrophic economic crisis? With an outrageous, sex-sozzled farcePedro Almodóvar is hobbling. He is also hopping mad. He has come into his Madrid office – where visitors are greeted by a massive album of Helmut...

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Beerse, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) - - OPTIMIZE study results presented at EASL show similar sustained virological response (SVR12) rates in patients with fibrosis or cirrhosis receiving an INCIVO(R)(telaprevir) combination treatment twice daily versus every eight hours - Janssen Infectious …

Everton's Champions League hopes may have faded, but star man Marouane Fellaini is set to provide a silver lining to their season. The Belgium midfielder will dye his hair silver if £25,000 is raised for Everton in the Community.

A Belgian woman has spoken of the moment she spotted a child who looked like Madeleine McCann in Brussels just days after she went missing.

Nespresso shot itself in the foot by sending 40 machines to customers to test in Belgium and Switzerland in 2004, thus invalidating its patent

Waterloo, Belgium – MasterCard today announces the winners of the MasterCard Mobile Shopping Application Awards, a unique competition recognising the best available mobile shopping applications in nin...

Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev returned from Russia last year "with a willingness to kill people." He was asked after a meeting in Belgium if the United States has a problem with young people being hopeless about their futures, an issue that countries like Syria are grappling with. "Well, of course we have the same problem. We just...

James McCormick, of Langport, Somerset, made his fortune from sales of three models to Iraq, Belgium and even the United Nations for use in Lebanon.

Groupon’s VP of mobile, David Katz, says that it has been “business as usual” at the daily deals company since the dramatic departure of founder/CEO Andrew Mason. “We’re still just focused on shipping new stuff,” Katz told TechCrunch in an interview. Today, that includes news of updates to Groupon’s iPhone and Android apps: it is adding a universal search...

An anonymous reader writes "Former diplomat to Belgium and the European Union Brendan Nelson describes his astonishment at his inability to get any response from Facebook when trying to get a diplomatically damaging fake page taken down. The social network ignored official protestations from the department of foreign affairs and security agencies." Read more of this...

ZONNEBEKE, Belgium (AP) -- The Tyne Cot cemetery sweeps gently down the slope, the nearly 12,000 headstones aligned in solemn rows of gleaming white. Beyond the walls stretch Flanders Fields, dotted by red farmhouse roofs. For the stage of some of World War I's worst carnage, the scene is tranquility itself - but over the whisper of wind floats a whine like a dentist's...

Plan to spend $10bn on updating nuclear bombs goes against 2010 pledge not to deploy new weapons, say criticsBarack Obama has been accused of reneging on his disarmament pledges after it emerged the administration was planning to spend billions on upgrading nuclear bombs stored in Europe to make the weapons more reliable and accurate.Under the plan, nearly 200 B61 gravity...

The Belgium international says the Scottish manager has greatly improved the club during his time at Goodison Park and has urged his teammates to finish the season strongly.