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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
From The Independent (UK): France - Neanderthal finds are like prehistoric buses.
The ruling by the Belgian court that Google remove Belgian newspaper articles and photo's from it's news service could have big repercussions.
Belgian scientists at the Catholic University of Leuven have embedded an RFID chip into a tooth to show how detailed personal information can be stored.