| 1. The Belgian artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, Gerard Mortier, resigned his post last week, after the new Austrian coalition government was announced. |
| 2. Wine-lover Yvette Jadot : « I am an oenologist so my job is really to advise customers what they need. » |
| 3. A shop owner : « In the beginning I spent a fortune marketing : I had to advertise everywhere to get the shop known. » |
| 4. An extension to the Architecture Foundation in Ixelles will provide a new centre devoted architecture, urban planning, landscape gardening and ecology. |
| 5. The organisers of the Euro 2000 football championships in Belgium and the Netherlands are still looking thousand of volunteers to help out with stewarding, transport, translating and other duties. |
| 6. A Rubens painting went under the hammer for a record sum at Sothebys in New York last week. The Portrait of a Man as the God Mars was sold an anynomous collector for $8.2 million. |
| 7. Transport Minister Isabelle Durant has signed the country up for the European car-free day on September 22. Cars will be banned for the day several Belgian cities including Brussels. |
| 8. The international press is extremely excited the release of the oscar-nominated movie American Beauty. |
| 9. A former security van driver burnt 8 million BF in cash belonging his father. The man is thought to have developed acute paranoia after his van was attacked twice. |
| 10. A Belgian living in Uganda was among 169 passengers who died when a Kenya Airways jet crashed the sea off the Ivory Coast. |
