Brussels, Belgium News

Lightning fast pigeon Bolt with a name and pedigree to match has become the world's most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for $400,000 to a Chinese businessman.

The event, slated for June 13-14 in Brussels, Belgium, will present information on emerging and applied technologies, discuss industry issues, explore potential solutions, and forge a path for future technologies.

France's medical device maker Carmat SAS said it has obtained the approval to proceed with the first human implantations of its artificial heart.

Olga by Oli-B, a street artist based in Brussels, Belgium, is a sculpture that puts an interesting twist on graffiti.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Registrations for the Pentawards 2013, a worldwide packaging design awards competition, will be closed definitively Friday, 24 May at midnight, Los Angeles time.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, and Mali's President Dioncounda Traore address the media after a meeting at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 14, 2013.

French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, center, talks with Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg, left, and British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, during the EU finance ministers meeting, at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

James Austin Rich, 66, of Thomaston, passed away peacefully Sunday, May 12, 2013, at his home surrounded by his loving family.

Pedestrians passing by the famous Manneken Pis statue in Brussels, Belgium, Monday may have spotted something out of the ordinary.

Ambassador James Dobbins will travel to Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium from May 14-17, 2013.

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Greece's coalition government has said it will use emergency powers to prevent teachers from disrupting university entrance exams as part of their planned strike this month.

The delegation led by Yuri Khachaturov, Chief of Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, has left for Brussels, Belgium, to participate in a regular meeting of the NATO military committee of the countries involved in the peacekeeping operating in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

The company is involved in transmission of electricity throughout the Belgium. It serves as a link between electricity supply and demand.

Umicore S.A Broekstraat 31 Rue du Marais B-1000 Brussels BELGIUM Tel.: +32-2-227 71 11 Fax: 32-2-227 79 00 E-post: info@umicore.com Umicore is a global materials technology and recycling group.

New York City, NY based I Scream Records has entered into an exclusive, worldwide distribution agreement with Victory Records.

A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his weapon in Raqqa province in eastern Syria. Hundreds of Western youths in Europe, some as young as 15, have disappeared from their schools and homes and turned up in Syria.

Brussels, 8 May 2013 The European Travel Commission is delighted to announce that the first quarterly report on European Tourism in 2013 - Trends & Prospects has just been published.

UCB S.A AllA©e de la Recherche 60 1070 Brussels BELGIUM Tel.: +32 2 559 9999 Fax: +32 2 559 9900 E-Mail: investor-relations@ucb.com UCB , Brussels, Belgium is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the research, development and commercialization of innovative medicines with a focus on the fields of central nervous system and immunology ... (more)

May 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka has been able to get the adversary announcement issued by the European Union to the local fishing industry over the allegation of illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing by Sri Lankan fishermen in international waters, removed, state-run radio reported.