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There's a new Bolt in town - the world's most expensive lightning-fast pigeon, which has just been sold for €310 000.
EU greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming, have dropped slightly last year but the much-vaunted system for cutting such pollution ran into even more trouble.
The Belgian Roman Catholic Church says it had received more than 300 complaints of sexual abuse of minors in 2012.
Unlike the brilliant thieves in Ocean's Eleven, it appears that those behind the clockwork-precision, $50m diamond heist at Brussels Airport may not get a Hollywood ending.
Several arrests have been made in raids in Belgium more than two months after a $50m diamond heist at the country's main airport, say reports.
The casualty toll in Belgium from the derailing and explosion of a train carrying highly toxic chemicals has risen to one dead and 49 injured.
Belgian authorities have evacuated nearly 300 people from their homes after several cars of a train carrying chemicals derailed, causing a major fire near the city of Gent.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has brought senior Afghan and Pakistani officials together for security talks, aimed at improving relations between the two nations.
Belgian police have raided 46 homes in the northern city of Antwerp and have arrested at least one man in an investigation into an Islamist group suspected of recruiting fighters for Syria's civil war.
The Belgian post office has released 538 000 stamps that have pictures of chocolate on the front, but the essence of cacao oil in the glue at the back for taste and in the ink for smell.
A 24-year-old child killer disguised as Batman villain "The Joker" has been found guilty of the murder of four people including two infants.
EU competition watchdogs says they were "looking into" potential anti-trust issues at iPad and iPhone giant Apple, following queries raised by telecommunications operators.
Frankfurt's airport has closed, trains have stopped running under the English Channel, and the French army has been ordered to help clear roads — all because of an oddly late snowfall.
The EU's anti-terror chief has warned Europe to remain on its guard, especially against the threat of European jihadists who are finding new safe havens from Syria to Mali.
Hundreds of Belgian steel workers are blocking a busy border crossing between Belgium and the Netherlands to protest against planned job cuts by ArcelorMittal.
