Antwerp News

Challenges can make people crumble and surrender or spur them to fight harder to succeed. Donny Strosberg, a biochemist at The Scripps Research Institute's Florida campus in Jupiter, falls into the later category. A professor in the department of infectology,...

In fact, it is getting better every week, and there is shortage of several varieties of diamonds," said Kiran Shah, an Antwerp diamond trader. "We have high hopes from the coming Christmas season," Shah said, adding that he expected the...

Travel tips Tom Hall of Lonely Planet answers your questions about worldwide travel Take a boat ride through the historic heart of Ghent. Photograph: Alamy Q: My daughter and her husband like booking mystery short breaks for one another; it's...

Pierre De Bosscher, chief executive officer of the Antwerp Diamond Bank, said 2009 is a “lost year” for the world’s diamond hub, and the industry may not see a recovery in demand in the US and Europe until 2011. To...

The company started in 1996 solely as an internet supplier, but soon moved into telephony and pay TV. InterKabel in 2008, a firm which is active primarily in Antwerp. This purchase should drive growth going forward as consumers switch from...

It is a direct descendant of the four-act classical ballet, taken into the realm of abstraction...It offers a demonstration of spectacle — of the way dance can work in relation to lighting, speech, drama, expectations. It presents ballet’s protocols —...

Detachments (No 666) With their synth-pop noir, Detachments are going to be competing for the title of 2010's best indie-techno miserablists Detachments ... doing the legacy of Joy Division and New Order proud Hometown: London. The lineup: Sebastien Marshal (vocals,...

It's noon at Salinas High School, and hundreds of students are in the courtyard. This is homecoming week, so a disc jockey is playing music. Songs like "Tutti Frutti" and "Splish Splash" lead into the 1980s hit "Girls Just Want...