Limburg, Belgium News

EpiGaN NV, a startup spun out of the IMEC research institute in 2010, has officially opened a production facility for gallium nitride on silicon wafers at the Research Campus in Hasselt, Belgium.

This is the result of strenuous efforts and close cooperation with MECC Maastricht, other participants and the Maastricht Convention Bureau.

THURSDAY May 10, 2012 -- Levels of certain gut bacteria and low protein intake may raise children's risk of being obese, new research suggests.

The Netherlands has banned non-residents from buying marijuana in the country. Neighboring governments are pleased, but the country's coffee shop owners and opposition party are not.

BIKE riders from North Devon took part in a "four countries in three days" challenge to raise money for the charity edukid.

A demonstrator holds a giant cardboard joint protesting the new policy of the Dutch coffee shops, in Maastricht on May 1, 2012.

Tyrannosaurus rex was still making a nice living, but some other dinosaurs declined in numbers long before the asteroid hit, 65.5 million years ago, paleontologists report.

A policy barring foreign tourists from buying marijuana in the Netherlands went into effect in parts of the country Tuesday, with attention focused on the southern city of Maastricht, where a cafe was warned over violating the ban and a buyers' protest is planned for later in the day.

Keen to stub out an era of dope tourism, the Netherlands on Tuesday starts restricting cannabis sales in the country's south to residents only, despite opposition from pro-pot lobby groups.

A review-essay on Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me by Geert Wilders, Regnery Publishing, May1, 2012, 256 pp.