A UN Security Council delegation has arrived in Bangladesh to visit Rohingya refugee camps and discuss the crisis with local officials.

As the English National Ballet prepares to bring its stunning take on Giselle to Ireland, Ellie O’Byrne hears how the production has been informed by the Bangladeshi origins of the choreographer.

Burma has accepted what appears to be the first five among some 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape military-led violence against the minority group.

Burma has struck a deal with Bangladesh to resettle more than 6,000 Rohingya Muslims who have been stranded in a no-man's-land between the two countries.

Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia has been sentenced to five years in prison on corruption charges.

Workers on the Burma side of the border with Bangladesh were laying bricks, digging ditches and drilling holes in building frames today in preparation for the repatriation of some of the Rohingya Muslims.

The man accused of carrying out a bomb attack in New York City’s subway system was influenced by the sermons and writings of a radical Muslim preacher, Bangladeshi officials said today.

Bangladesh's government has condemned an attack on New York City's subway system, as it emerged that the suspect is an immigrant from the South Asian nation.

Pope Francis has demanded that the international community take "decisive measures" to resolve the causes of the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Burma, breaking his recent silence over what the United Nations has declared to be a textbook case of "ethnic cleansing".

Pope Francis held 15 minutes of talks yesterday with Burma’s military chief at the start of a visit to a majority-Buddhist country. 

Burma and Bangladesh have endorsed China’s calls for a negotiated resolution of the Rohingya refugee crisis, Beijing has claimed.

Wild elephants have attacked a new camp where Rohingya refugees were sleeping, killing a woman and her three children in southern Bangladesh.

As hundreds of thousands of the Rohingya Muslim minority flee ethnic conflict in Myanmar, Brahma Chellaney looks at the history of the country’s simmering internal divisions.

Tens of thousands more people have crossed by boat and on foot into Bangladesh in the last 24 hours as they flee violence in western Burma, the UNHCR said.

A Bangladesh court has sentenced to death 10 leaders and activists from a banned Islamist group for a plot in 2000 to kill prime minister Sheikh Hasina by planting bombs at one of her rallies.

A boiler explosion at a garment factory in Bangladesh owned by export-oriented Multifabs Ltd has killed 10 people and injured 50, police said.

Rescuers have recovered the body of a woman from the sea of mud that collapsed on to a village in south-eastern Bangladesh and are searching for several other people who are still missing after landslides killed at least 141, officials said.

At least 68 people have died after heavy rain triggered landslides in southeast Bangladesh.

Large chunks of mud swept over many thatched homes after the rains began early on Monday.

Two men, including a British national, who had not been heard from since a restaurant attack in Bangladesh last month have been arrested over allegations they were involved in the deadly siege carried out by radical Islamists.

A court in Bangladesh has indicted 41 suspects on murder charges over the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a building which housed garment factories.

Police have been questioning family members of five attackers who stormed an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh, killing police officers and hostages.

Security officials were searching for clues and criminal masterminds who might have set in motion the bloody hostage crisis that left 28 dead, including six attackers and 20 of the hostages, in the diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

The so-called Islamic State has claimed an attack on a Bangladesh restaurant in which militants killed 20 hostages, saying it targeted the citizens of "Crusader countries" in the capital, Dhaka.

The bodies of nine Italians have been identified after an attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh, the Italian foreign minister said.

Latest: It has now been confirmed that 20 hostages have been killed during a siege in a cafe in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.

A Hindu temple worker has been hacked to death in south-west Bangladesh in the latest attack blamed on radical Islamists.

Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested more than 5,000 criminal suspects in the past few days as they continue a nationwide crackdown to try to stop a growing wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.

Authorities have rounded up about 1,600 suspected petty criminals, including some believed to be Islamist radicals, in a nationwide crackdown aimed at halting a wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists in Bangladesh.

A doctor was hacked to death and his friend critically wounded by men wielding machetes in western Bangladesh, police said.

Police in Bangladesh say they have arrested a suspected Muslim militant over the killing of a gay rights activist and his friend in Dhaka.

More than 60 people have reportedly been killed by lightning over the past two days during tropical storms across Bangladesh.

A 75-year-old Buddhist monk has been killed in a monastery in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh's prime minister has pledged to hunt down and prosecute the attackers who fatally stabbed a gay rights activist and his friend in Dhaka.

Police in Bangladesh say unidentified assailants have stabbed two men to death, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the US Agency for International Development.

Two men, including a gay rights activist who worked for the US Agency for International Development, have been stabbed to death in Bangladesh.

A university professor in north-western Bangladesh has been hacked to death on his way to work in an attack similar to other killings by suspected Muslim militants.

Bangladesh’s central bank governor resigned yesterday over the theft of $81m (€73m) from the bank’s US account, as details emerged in the Philippines that $30m of the money was delivered in cash to a casino junket operator in Manila.

Ireland are out of the ICC World Twenty20 after heavy rain prevented a result in their match against Bangladesh in Dharamsala.

Ireland are out of the ICC World Twenty20.

Bangladesh says it may sue America's Federal Reserve Bank after losing $100m dollars from an account in New York.