Who is this mystery woman?

A pregnant Moroccan woman is awaiting deportation after the Brussels municipality refused to issue a marriage certificate to her and her Belgian husband-to-be. Police raided their home suspecting an arranged marriage and deemed it “lacking in intimacy” on the grounds they were not sharing a double mattress; “did not look each other in the eyes”; and that the wife didn’t know her husband-to-be’s internet alias despite supposedly meeting in a chat room. The groom also claimed that his future spouse “slept soundly” while she claimed the opposite.

Still painting after all these years.

A painting found in the basement of Halle church was at least partially painted by Peter Paul Rubens, according to the expert Roger Clarisse. The 65 by 51 cm oil on canvas painting represents a man admiring the Madonna. Clarisse asserts that at least the face was completed by the famous Flemish Baroque painter, but the claim is still to be verified by Rubens House.

Just a slap on the wrist.

According to the Catholic Church’s own figures, only one in six paedophile priests has ever been permanently suspended. Newspaper Le Soir quoted figures from an internal Church report dating from the 1960s until 2010. Of the 134 priests identified, 90 still survive – not counting the 50 or so allegations revealed this last month.

First come, first serve.

Belgian fertilisation centres are short of sperm because they no longer accept donors from foreign centres. New legislation prohibits more than six women to be fertilised with the same sperm, a limitation that is difficult to verify with sperm sent from abroad. Until recently, most donations originated from Denmark.

You're free to go.

Due to an administrative oversight an alleged murderer and member of a violent Brussels gang was let out of jail a day before he was due to appear at trial. The prosecution holds videotape evidence of the murder that clearly identifies the man and the defence had not even contested the preemptive detention. Yet when the trial date was postponed with no replacement set, the judge had no choice but to free him.