BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Paintings by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte will be displayed by Sotheby’s in Brussels this week among dozens of rare art works before being sold at auction. Belgian impressionist Theo van Rysselberghe’s “Canal en Flandre” will be shown ... More »
Visitors are seen at the exhibition “What Were You Wearing?” that showcases the stories of U.S. student rape victims through representations of the outfits they wore during their assault, in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, Belgium January 16, 2018. REUTERS... More »
Lloyd’s Chief Executive Officer Inga Beale attends an interview in Hong Kong, China January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Bobby Yip HONG KONG (Reuters) – Insurance market Lloyd’s of London [SOLYD.UL], an integral part of the British business scene since the 17th century, ... More »
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks during a southern European Union nations meeting in Rome, Italy January 10, 2018. REUTERS/Remo Casilli MADRID (Reuters) – Madrid will continue to run Catalonia’s government if sacked former leader Carles Puigdemont i... More »
Tennis – Fed Cup Final – Belarus v United States – rubber 3 – Chizhovka Arena, Minsk, Belarus, November 12, 2017 – Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in action. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (Reuters) – Belarus teen Aryna Sabalenka blasted top seed Zhang Shuai out of the H... More »
FILE PHOTO: Handout file picture shows Belgian-born Salah Abdeslam on a call for witnesses notice released by the French Police Nationale information services on their twitter account November 15, 2015. Police Nationale/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo BRUSSELS ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Sabeco’s Saigon beers are display for sale in a market in Hanoi, Vietnam April 17, 2017. Picture taken April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo Ho CHI MINH CITY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Thai Beverage (TBEV.SI), through a local unit, won the rights to b... More »
Bottles of Sabeco’s Saigon beer are seen at a restaurant bar in Hanoi, Vietnam December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kham HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) – A unit of Thai Beverage (TBEV.SI) won the auction to buy a $5 billion or 54 percent stake in top brewer Sabeco SAB.HM in... More »
Arla FoodÕs milk powder is stacked in a supermarket in Copenhagen, Denmark December 15, 2017. REUTERS/Julie Astrid Thomsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Following a string of food safety scandals, Chinese tourists visiting Copenhagen have this year stocked up on Dani... More »
The German share price index, DAX board, is seen at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Staff/Remote/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – European stocks rallied to a week’s high on Friday as Britain and the European Union announced a ... More »
On the eve of his trip to Europe, Rex Tillerson gave a speech last week that European allies had waited months to hear: an "ironclad" promise of U.S. support to its oldest allies. More »
FILE PHOTO: Cans of beer move along a production line at a factory of Saigon Beer Corporation (Sabeco) in Hanoi, Vietnam June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Vietnam’s biggest brewer Sabeco SAB.HM has received a strong response from pot... More »
FILE PHOTO: The charging plug of an electric Volkswagen Passat car is pictured at charging station at a VW dealer in Berlin, Germany, February 2, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) has partnered with top carm... More »
Formula One – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Yas Marina circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – November 26, 2017 Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas celebrates with the trophy after winning the race REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Valtteri Bottas won the Abu ... More »
The first mass-delivered bread made of insects are seen at the Finnish food company Fazer bakery in Helsinki, Finland November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Attila Cser HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish bakery and food service company Fazer launched on Thursday what it said wa... More »
Tennis – ATP World Tour Finals – The O2 Arena, London, Britain – November 19, 2017 Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov celebrates with the trophy after winning the final against Belgium’s David Goffin REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Grigor Dimitrov claimed the... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The missing last piece of a painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte was found underneath another of the artist’s works at a museum in Brussels using x-ray imaging. The fourth part of ‘The Enchanted Pose’ (1927) was painted over by Mag... More »
The spirit was as strong as ever but Rafael Nadal's troublesome knee failed him in the end as the Spaniard quit the ATP Finals after a painful defeat by Belgium's David Goffin on Monday. More »
Rafael Nadal's unforgettable season came to a painful end when he withdrew from the ATP Finals with a knee injury after defeat in his opening round-robin match against David Goffin on Monday. More »
NATO buyer nations for the European A400M military transport plane have postponed a ministerial meeting on the troubled program for three months until February, said two sources familiar with the 20 billion euro project. More »
An ecstatic Lewis Hamilton became Britain's first four-times Formula One world champion on Sunday after fighting back from last place following an opening-lap collision with arch-rival Sebastian Vettel at the Mexican Grand Prix. More »
A trail of fossilized three-toed footprints that measure nearly two feet (57 cm) long shows that a huge meat-eating dinosaur stalked southern Africa 200 million years ago at a time when most carnivorous dinosaurs were modest-sized beasts. More »
Mercedes won the Formula One constructors' title for the fourth year in a row on Sunday but Lewis Hamilton was made to wait despite cruising to a U.S. Grand Prix victory at one of his favorite circuits. More »
Team by team analysis of Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix (listed in championship order): More »
Belgian rider Jan Bakelants is on the road to recovery following spinal surgery after suffering multiple fractures to his vertebrae in a horror fall at the Giro di Lombardia this month. More »
Cyber security watchdogs and researchers are issuing warnings over risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after the discovery of a flaw that could allow hackers to read information thought to be encrypted, or infect websit... More »
BASF has agreed to buy seed and herbicide businesses from Bayer for 5.9 billion euros ($7 billion) in cash, as Bayer tries to convince competition authorities to approve its planned acquisition of Monsanto. More »
Investors who lend billions of euros to Spain every year are struggling to sketch out the repercussions for the country's finances of a possible independence proclamation by the wealthy region of Catalonia. More »
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia's capital Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to declaring independence from Spain, showing how divided the region is on the issue. More »
The World Solar Challenge began on Sunday with 42 solar cars crossing Australia's tropical north to its southern shores, a grueling 3,000 km (1,864 mile) race through the outback. More »
The secessionist leader of Catalonia called for international mediation on Monday in the region's dispute with Madrid, a day after hundreds of people were hurt as police swung truncheons and fired rubber bullets to disrupt an independence referendum. More »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced a series of measures designed to speed to market generic versions of complex drugs such as Mylan NV's emergency EpiPen in an effort to address the rising cost of pharmaceuticals. More »
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she wanted to agree a clear line on euro zone reforms in talks on a new coalition government in Germany. More »
A lost portrait by Rubens of the charming but unpopular Duke of Buckingham, a lover of King James I of England, has been found after an art historian spotted telltale signs of the Flemish master's hand under centuries of grime and overpainting. More »
Hopes for higher wage growth across Britain are receding, apart from in a few sectors of the labor market that suffer from acute skill shortages, according to a report published on Monday by recruitment company Hays. More »
British food delivery company Deliveroo has raised $385 million in private funding, it said on Sunday, as it prepares for expansion to help it compete with publicly traded rivals such as Delivery Hero and Just Eat. More »
Around 10,000 finance jobs will be shifted out of Britain or created overseas in the next few years if the UK is denied access to Europe's single market, according to a Reuters survey of firms employing the bulk of workers in international finance. More »
Portugal's 10-year bond yield hit its lowest level since January 2016 on Monday, driven by the country regaining an investment grade credit rating after 5-1/2 years, effectively drawing a line under its debt crisis. More »
Red Bull rekindled memories of their pomp at the Singapore Grand Prix, but team driver Daniel Ricciardo doesn't expect a three-way tussle at the top in Formula One just yet. More »
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Wednesday that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's plan to build a closer European Union based on an expanded euro zone was largely in line with Germany's vision for the bloc. More »
Donald Sutherland, the star of "MASH," "The Hunger Games" and more than 140 other movies, is to get a lifetime achievement Oscar, along with Belgian director Agnes Varda, Oscar organizers said on Wednesday. More »
Eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil have been discovered in 40 countries, including 24 of the European Union's 28 member states, German news agency DPA reported on Tuesday, without citing its sources. More »
A Belgian town honored its 22-year-old tradition of making a giant omelet on Tuesday amidst an egg contamination scare, cooking 10,000 eggs in a pan four meters wide. More »
Late birdies from Thomas Pieters and Zach Johnson gave the duo a share of the lead after the third round of the World Golf Championship-Bridgestone Invitational on Saturday. More »
More than 22,000 people were evacuated from an electronic music festival in Barcelona on Saturday night after a huge fire broke out on one of the stages during a sequence of the show involving fireworks, emergency services said. More »
F1 – Formula One – British Grand Prix 2017 – Silverstone, Britain – July 16, 2017 Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton celebrates his win on the podium Lewis Hamilton won his home British Grand Prix for the fourth year in a row on Sunday while a penultimate-lap puncture s... More »
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a meeting with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit in Moscow, Russia, July 5, 2017. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday he wanted to be shown at least one fact proving Moscow... More »
Suicide bombers killed 17 people and injured 21 in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the police commissioner of Borno state said on Wednesday. More »
Britain Formula One – F1 – British Grand Prix 2016 – Silverstone, England – 10/7/16 Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton celebrates with his team after winning the race Lewis Hamilton will head to Silverstone for this weekend’s British Grand Prix with the circuit as much ... More »
FILE PHOTO – Legend Holdings chairman Liu Chuanzhi attends a news conference on the company’s annual results in Hong Kong, China March 30, 2016. China’s Legend Holdings Corp is in talks on a potential investment in Qatari-owned Banque Internationale a Luxembou... More »
FILE PHOTO – The dismantled Euro sign sculpture stand in front of the headquarters of the former European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt July 8, 2015. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski Euro zone government bonds steadied on Friday from another battering that left market... More »
Golf – LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship – Fourth Round – Incheon, South Korea – 16/10/16. Kim Sei-young of South Korea hits a shot on the ninth hole. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji July 6 (The Sports Xchange) – South Korean Kim Sei-young and rookie Laura Gonzalez Escallon... More »
Cycling – The 104th Tour de France cycling race – Training ahead of the weekend’s start – Duesseldorf, Germany – June 30, 2017 – Team Sky Chris Froome of Britain rides with teammates during a training. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier Tension was building up around Team... More »
Cycling – The 104th Tour de France cycling race – The 203.5-km Stage 2 from Duesseldorf, Germany to Liege, Belgium – July 2, 2017 – Team Sky riders Christopher Froome and Geraint Thomas of Britain in action. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Chris Froome got a brutal... More »
The Saudi Food and Drug Authority has announced a temporary halt to poultry and egg imports from Belgium following an outbreak of contagious H5N8 bird flu there, the state news agency SPA reported on Sunday. More »
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C38, carrying Cartosat-2 and 30 other satellites, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar India fired a rocket carrying 31 small satellites into spac... More »
FILE PHOTO: Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka hits a shot during her third round match against Japan’s Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo Former world number one Victoria ... More »
Sand carver Sergey Zaplatin from Russia. REUTERS/Yves Herman A beach in Belgium has been transformed into a giant sandy gallery, featuring larger-than-life super heroes, cartoon characters and Cinderella’s castle, for one of the world’s biggest sand-sculpture ... More »
A worker shows crickets at a farm belonging to company ‘Little Food,’ which prepares and promotes food products made from crickets, in Brussels, Belgium June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir A Brussels start-up is hoping to stir a culinary revolution in Belgiu... More »
The Swift bank logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo Dealing with cyber hacks on banks ate into profit last year at the SWIFT messaging system, which financial institutions use to move trillions of d... More »
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi listens during a news conference following the Governing Council meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins Euro zone bond yields hit multi-month lows and the euro dipped below $1.12 on Thursday... More »
FILE PHOTO – A man arrives at the Uber offices in Queens, New York, U.S. on February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Car service Uber is using a gap in EU and UK tax rules to avoid incurring sales tax on the booking fees it charges drivers in Brit... More »
FILE PHOTO: Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel poses as he arrives to attend the NATO Summit at their new headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann A Belgian princess fired a starting pistol so close to the prime minister’s... More »
Five things to watch out for on day two of the French Open on Monday: More »
FILE PHOTO – White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster (C) sits between Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (C) and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (R) during a joint news conference held by U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombian President Juan Manuel Sant... More »
White House national security advisor H.R. McMaster speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, U.S., May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that “of course” President Donald T... More »
FILE PHOTO – A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo The number of new drugs approved for sale in United States and Europe has bounced back this year, sugge... More »
Formula One – F1 – Monaco Grand Prix – Monaco – 24/05/2017 – A mechanic works on the suspension of Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari inside the pits. REUTERS/Max Rossi Formula One teams have been told to change the rear jack points on their cars for safety reasons af... More »
FILE PHOTO – Ariana Grande performs at Z100’s Jingle Ball in Manhattan, New York, U.S., December 9, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/Files Roy More »
U.S. First lady Melania Trump (L) walks with Amelie Derbaudrenghien, partner of Belgian’s Prime Minister Charles Michel, at the Brussels Airport in Brussels, Belgium, May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay As her reality TV star husband meets many of his Western a... More »
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos attends a eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium May 22, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir Euro zone finance ministers failed to agree on debt relief for Greece with the International Monetary Fund on Monda... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives aboard Air Force One at JFK International Airport in New York, U.S. May 4, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst President Donald Trump will express support for Palestinian “self-determination” during a Middle East trip this month, a... More »
A mural signed by ‘TV Boy’ and depicting Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump kissing, is seen on a wall in downtown Rome, Italy May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Tony Gentile A life-size mural depicting Pope Francis with a saintly halo kissing U.S. President Dona... More »
Portugal’s Salvador Sobral (C) celebrates with team after the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 Semi-Final 1 at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich The Portuguese and Armenian entrants for the 2017 Eurovision so... More »
Gaps in vaccination coverage against measles have lead to several outbreaks of the highly-contagious disease in Europe in the past year, with both children and young adults affected, health officials said on Monday. More »
Brussels prosecutors are investigating a deal between Belgian company Semlex and the Democratic Republic of Congo to supply biometric passports, a spokesman for the prosecutors’ office said on Thursday. More »
FILE PHOTO – Tennis – Australian Open – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – early 29/1/17 Serena Williams of the U.S. poses with the Women’s singles trophy after winning her final match. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/Files Tennis superstar Serena Williams is pregnan... More »
FILE PHOTO: A man looks at campaign posters of the 11th candidates who run in the 2017 French presidential election in Saint Andre de La Roche, near Nice, France, April 10, 2017. L-R : Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Debout La France group candidate, Marine Le Pen, Fre... More »
FILE PHOTO: Swift code bank logo is displayed on an iPhone 6s among Euro banknotes in this picture illustration January 26, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Interbank messaging service SWIFT, which is used to transfer trillions of dollars between banks ever... More »
An illustration of what the land bridge connecting Britain to Europe may have looked like before the formation of the Dover Strait is seen in an image handed out by Imperial College London April 4, 2017. The foreground is around where the port of Calais is tod... More »
Ecuadorean presidential candidate Lenin Moreno (C) celebrates alongside Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa (L) and his wife Rocio Gonzalez during a national election day in a hotel, in Quito, April 2, 2017. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo Leftist government candidate Len... More »
Philippe Gilbert became the first Belgian in five years to win a major classic after a gutsy attack with about 50 kilometers left earned him victory in a crash-hit Tour of Flanders on Sunday. More »
Police work at Carriage Gate outside the Houses of Parliament. REUTERS/Neil Hall The attacker who plowed a car through a throng of pedestrians and then stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament was named on Thursday as Khalid Masood, a British-born man ... More »
Mar 23, 2017- Miami, FL, USA- Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain has a forehand against Christina McHale of the United States (not pictured) on day three of the 2017 Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center. Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports Russian Elena Vesnina and Spania... More »
Policemen patrol in the Zaventem airport prior to a ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of twin attacks at Brussels airport and a metro train in Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman Jan Bartunek and Alastair Macdonald More »
FILE PHOTO: European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo Euro zone money markets on Friday showed around an 80 percent chance that the European Central Bank could lift its deposit rate at its ... More »
Team by team prospects for the Formula One season starting in Melbourne on March 26, listed in 2016 championship order. The numbers are those the drivers have selected for the duration of their grand prix careers: More »
North Korean leader Kim Il-sung is seen on this 5000 North Korea won banknote in this photo illustration taken in Shanghai May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Barria SWIFT, the inter-bank messaging network which is the backbone of international finance, said it plann... More »
Belgian artist sculptor Jean-Henri Compere completes its commemorative work dedicated to the victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Vidal A Belgian artist is installing a metal sculpture shaped like rising waves near the... More »
The Formula One season starts in Australia on March 26, the first of 20 races. Race times are 1200 GMT unless stated. More »
Kris Meeke won the Mexican round of the World Rally Championship for Citroen on Sunday after final stage drama that saw the Briton almost miss out when he went off road and through a spectator car park. More »
FILE PHOTO – The replica of a Neanderthal skull is displayed in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern Croatian town of Krapina, Croatia on February 25, 2010. REUTERS/Nikola Solic/File Photo Ancient DNA from dental plaque is revealing intriguing new inform... More »
Formula One – F1 – Test session – Barcelona-Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, Spain – 8/3/17. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso in action. REUTERS/Albert Gea A frustrated Fernando Alonso let rip at McLaren’s engine partners Honda on Wednesday after another difficult af... More »
The Dutch fishing village of Volendam hardly seems like a hotbed of discontent: tidy, prosperous, little crime or unemployment. Yet a third of its voters are likely to back anti-immigrant nationalist Geert Wilders in the March 15 general election. More »
A Brussels conference to finance global family planning initiatives raised 181 million euros ($190.34 million) after a U.S. halt to such programs left NGOs worldwide with a large funding gap. More »
Journalists use their mobile phones to photograph McLaren’s new MCL32 Formula One car at its launch in Woking, Britain, February 24, 2017. REUTER/Alan Baldwin Fernando Alonso said on Friday that Mercedes contacted him after Formula One world champion Nico Rosb... More »
A waiter walks past an Airbus A400M military transport plane is parked at the Airbus assembly plant during an event in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, December 1, 2016. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo Airbus (AIR.PA) called for new talks with Europ... More »
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich Norway has joined an international initiative to raise millions of dollars to replace shortfalls l... More »
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos talks to European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici (R) during a eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir Greece and its international... More »
Director Aki Kaurismaki arrives for the screening of the movie ‘The Other Side of Hope’ at the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt One drops you, trapped and powerless, in the middle of a civil war, whi... More »
