The University of Ghent will this week give away a prize of a full year’s tuition to a “creative-thinking” student as part of a campaign run by advetising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. On four consecutive days, a challenge will appear on the campaign website. The student who best solves the puzzle will receive the prize, which also includes a studio apartment, a laptop, a GSM, a cinema season ticket and one hot meal a day for a year. www.stuntbrein.be

Antwerp-based boxer Sugar Jackson has been cleared of misconduct by the Flemish Doping Tribunal following his failure to fill in his whereabouts last year. Professional sportsmen and women are obliged to report their locations when on tour to allow random drug testing. Jackson claimed never to have received a letter informing him he was now one of Flanders’ 713 top athletes and, therefore, subject to the system. Jackson’s 19 March bout against American Randall Bailey in Lotto Arena can now go ahead.

The state security service has advised the justice minister that sending sensitive information by email using a BlackBerry smartphone is unsafe, and may even be illegal. The agency has recommended that the devices should no longer be used by ministers and senior civil servants, following talks with the Canadian operator RIM, who admitted their network was not secure enough for mail traffic classified as “restricted”. All of BlackBerry’s traffic in Europe passes through servers in the UK.

Flemish astronaut Frank De Winne discussed the death of Michael Jackson with his wife Lena while he was in space and once asked her to turn the webcam round so he could watch the Ronde Van Vlaanderen on TV, she has revealed in a new book about their six-month separation while Frank commanded the International Space Station. “I prepared myself for our weekly video conferences,” Lena Clarke De Winne said. “Sometimes I put on some make-up, and I always picked a different part of the house to talk to him, so he could see into my life.” www.davidsfonds.be

An 18-year-old girl who claimed to have been abducted in Mechelen by two men and held for 20 hours invented the tale and was with her boyfriend, investigators said. Police found her original story inconsistent and interviewed her a second time, when she admitted the truth. She said she was afraid to tell her parents that she had been with her boyfriend all night.

Belgium is in the middle of the European average for road accident fatalities but scores less well than its neighbouring countries, according to the latest figures from Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency. Belgium comes 15th in a table of 27, with 101 deaths per million inhabitants. Malta had the lowest rate at 29 deaths, while Lithuania is worst at 218. Belgium’s neighbours all did better: France (75), Germany (60), the UK (50) and the Netherlands (43).