The number of suicides in Flanders fell steadily for two decades, but 2022 brought an upward bend in the graphs. That year, 1,024 people took their own lives – 2.8 people per day. The trend break is entirely due to a striking increase in the number of suicides among women, by 18 percent compared to … Read more
By Eva Mathews and Maggie Fick May 1 (Reuters) – GSK raised its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday due to strong demand for its common respiratory vaccine and specialty HIV drugs, although it expects sales growth to slow in the second half. CEO Emma Walmsley’s strategy has focused on vaccines, cancer and infectious diseases, as … Read more
Cartoon Palestinian photographer Mohammed Salem has won World Press Photo of the Year with a moving image of a Palestinian woman embracing her slain niece in the mortuary of Nasser Hospital. Mohammed Salem made the image on October 17, 2023. We see 36-year-old Inas Abu Maaram with her five-year-old niece Saly in Khan Younis. Earlier … Read more
The Antwerp police made the discovery last week on the Amerikalei, in the shadow of the Butterfly Palace. The local police officer knocked on the door of the stately terraced house of Markus V., a former interior designer who, among other things, helped redesign the interior of the Church of Our Lady of Leliëndaal in … Read more
Basket Emma Meesseman is more than ever the queen of European basketball. The 30-year-old West Flemish native led her club Fenerbahçe Istanbul to the title in the Euroleague as MVP on Sunday. For Meesseman it is already her sixth final victory in the most important European basketball competition, a record. Fenerbahçe won the final of … Read more
On Wednesday, March 27, a paper by the geophysicist appears in the prestigious scientific journal “Nature”. Duncan Agnew (Duncan Agnew) from the University of California with the somewhat strange title: “Melting ice solves leap-second problem – for now”, immediately making the rounds of the world. With dozens of reports and analyzes on the Internet. But … Read more
Forget the Ghelamco Arena, the home of KAA Gent has found a new name sponsor and the choice ultimately fell on Planet Group, Sam Baro’s HR company. He took over number 7 last summer. It is a deal that yields KAA Gent 1 million euros per year, not an insignificant amount for the Buffaloes who … Read more
Red sage: a perennial plant with many health benefits Red sage is a perennial plant that reaches a height of 80 cm, characterized by its purple or pink flowers and serrated oval leaves. Sage is considered an important natural herb that provides many health benefits that can greatly help the body. Sage is famous for … Read more
Jupiler Pro League On the final day of the regular competition, Cercle Brugge and Genk still secured a ticket for the Champions’ Play-offs. Ghent and Mechelen have to make peace with the Europe Play-offs. At the bottom, OH Leuven saves itself at the expense of Charleroi. The final day of the regular competition has brought … Read more
Again and again and again the traffic jam record is broken. The most recent: 852 kilometer hours. Traffic jams are expressed in kilometer hours, a unit of measurement that indicates how many kilometers of traffic jams there would be if the average working day lasted one hour. Never before has the severity of traffic jams … Read more