The first large-scale storm to take place in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain or Portugal will be named Armand after Armand Pien, a famous Belgian weather reporter and the first Dutch-speaking meteorologist at the RMI, who passes away in 2003

Concerns regarding sperm donations have reignited in Belgium following news that 53 children, in 39 families, were conceived using sperm with a genetic abnormality from the same donor, a Danish man

A wildfire in the High Fens nature reserve started on 14 August destroyed 3000 hectares out of 4500; 50 houses in Waimes and Bütgenbach, a vacation hot-spot, were evacuated

A new regional park tailored to the local neighbourhood will be created along the railway line leading to Brussels-Midi station in Forest, just by the Wiels contemporary art museum and will be a green regeneration of the heavily built Midi quarter

Flanders approved the use of self-driving Tesla vehicles on its roads, despite the Flemish administration's doubts about the readiness of the system and the fact that the decision impacts the whole Belgian