A passenger train slammed at high speed into a slow-moving freight train in eastern Belgium, killing three people and sending 10 others to hospital.

Two men have been charged with offences related to the Brussels bombings, while three others have been detained in Brussels in connection to the Paris attacks, Belgian authorities said.

Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois refused to give any assurances when quizzed about his long-term future while on international duty with Belgium.

Several suspects are being quizzed across Europe as police investigations and recriminations continued over Tuesday’s terror attacks in Brussels.

Belgian police have arrested seven people and German authorities arrested two in separate investigations into IS suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there “that was at an advanced stage”.

A second attacker is suspected of taking part in the bombing this week of a Brussels subway train and may be at large, according to Belgian and French media reports, amid signs that the same Islamic State (IS) network was behind the attacks in Brussels and bloodshed in Paris last year.

Belgium’s chief prosecutor yesterday named two brothers as Islamic State suicide bombers involved in the most deadly attacks in Brussels’ history.

Belgian police killed a gunman after several officers were wounded yesterday in a raid on a Brussels apartment linked to investigating November’s Islamist attacks in Paris, public broadcaster RTBF said.

Belgian security forces killed two terror suspects in a fierce shoot-out in the eastern city of Verviers foiling a major attack against police buildings.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has calmed worries about his fitness.

Three people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels.

Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini admits his desire for European football means he has not ruled out a move to an “ambitious club”.

Roberto Di Matteo was the obvious choice to become full-time Chelsea manager next season, according to former Blues defender Frank Leboeuf.

Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini admits his desire for European football means he has not ruled out a move to an “ambitious club”.

Belgium and Lille midfielder Eden Hazard admits he could join Tottenham this summer.

THE lone Belgian gunman who went on a murderous spree in the city of Liege, killing four people before turning a gun on himself, had a long criminal record and seemed fearful of returning to jail.

A Belgian TV news anchor has apologised for suggesting French President Nicolas Sarkozy was drunk at the G-8 summit last week.

BELGIANS were still recovering yesterday after a television channel announced in a spoof programme that the Flemish part of the country had declared independence and that Belgium was no more.

UEFA is set to launch an investigation into claims by Poland defender Jacek Bak that he was offered a bribe before the Euro 2008 Qualifying match against Belgium on Wednesday.

Belgian investigators are questioning an Iranian man who handed himself in to police claiming he’d been approached to blow up a passenger plane on the Charleroi-Dublin route, it was reported today.

Belgian Grand Prix organisers have agreed a deal with Bernie Ecclestone to bring Formula One back to Spa-Francorchamps in 2007, just days after this year’s race was cancelled.

Some Nato members shifted away from a confrontation with the US today, welcoming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s explanation of Washington’s views on secret prisons and the treatment of terrorist suspects.

The bodies of five children and one adult were found today in a smouldering car that Belgian authorities believe was intentionally set on fire north of Brussels, an official said.

The worldwide cycling community will await the results of today’s post-mortem following the sudden death of the great Italian Marco Pantani.

BELGIUM opened the trial yesterday of 23 suspected al-Qaida collaborators, including a professional footballer who has confessed to knowing Osama bin Laden and plotting to attack a Belgian air force base.

A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease is being investigated in Belgium.