Bruno Waterfield

Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right leader, is poised to become a coalition kingmaker as the result of a predicted swing to conservative and anti-establishment parties in elections prompted by the European Union’s migration crisis

Port officials in Antwerp are seizing so much cocaine that they face a new security threat because they cannot burn the drugs quickly enough before gangs try to steal them back.The Belgian customs authorities have been forced to move a stash of 25 tonnes of cocaine worth €2 billion, seized from smug

Geert Wilders, the hard-right populist, has said he is “ready to govern” after his shock win in the Dutch elections, which has triggered alarm among immigrant and Muslim communities in the Netherlands

Samuel Beckett was not known for his optimism. When The Times asked the author of Waiting for Godot for his New Year’s Resolutions in 1984 he responded: “Resolutions: zero. Hopes: zero.”Already

Researchers are creating a ‘smell encyclopaedia’ to give modern noses a whiff of history

The Freedom Party leader has dropped pledges to shut mosques and ban the Quran to try to form a coalition

Erik van Sabben released a Stuxnet computer worm that compromised Tehran’s weapons programme. Weeks later, he was dead

The animal rights group argues that riding model creatures sets a poor example to children

Nato has dropped plans to have a woman at the helm of the alliance because of fears that Donald Trump’s “misogyny” will cause more damage to transatlantic relations if he returns to the White House.

Charlotte and Emily Brontë lived in the Belgian capital while learning French 180 years ago — an experience which may have inspired the creation of Mr Rochester