A 35-year-old woman was presented with a bill for €9,863.35 from Mobistar when she returned home to Leopoldsburg, Limburg province, from a holiday in France. The bill covered Ann Tubbeckx’s chatting with her husband via the video chat site Paltalk.com for one hour a day for a week. Mobistar maintains Tubbeckx’s bill is correct, attributing the inflated price to their use of video communication.

Human bones, including a skull and vertebra, that were found strewn about a public carpark in the village of Maffle, near Ath, at the weekend came from an unearthed graveyard. Ath municipal authorities denied any involvement in the dumping of the cemetery land in its midst. “Our public services didn’t do this. The earth was dumped here by a private company,” said Raymond Vignoble (PS), deputy mayor of the town of Ath. “It’s not the first time this has happened,” he added.  An inquiry has been opened to determine who is responsible for the dumping of the bones.

Queen Fabiola, the widow of the late King Baudouin, caused a stir during National Day celebrations on July 21 by brandishing an apple before the gathered crowd in jokey reference to the death threats she had received earlier this year.  In a letter to a newspaper in May, an unknown group had written that she would be killed by crossbow during the national day festivities. As the annual military parade came to an end, the Queen, 81, removed the apple from her bag and showed it to spectators so as to mock her would-be assassin by alluding to the exploits of the Swiss crossbow marksman William Tell. The gesture was greeted with much laughter by the crowd.

Damien Van
Sebroeck, 62, finally received a verdict in a case that has taken 20 years to
make it through the Brussels courts. His case was first filed in 1989 and
concerned a dispute about a disco operated by Van Sebroeck and the disco’s
owner. The problem now is that the bank cannot locate the paperwork to
determine the damages awarded to Van Sebroeck, which could be anywhere between
€250,000 and €700,000.

A mother
gave birth in a car parked on the front lawn of the Erasmus Hospital in
Brussels because her panicked husband couldn’t find the entrance the emergency
night entrance.