The United States Holocaust Museum is revoking a major human rights award given to Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's civilian leader.

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.

Thailand and the United States have launched the largest annual joint military exercise in Southeast Asia but played down the presence of a Burmese military officer.

At least five previously unreported mass graves have been uncovered in Burma, in the newest piece of evidence for what looks increasingly like genocide against the Rohingya in Rakhine state.

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.

Rohingya refugees are continuing to flee from Burma into Bangladesh, despite the two countries saying they will begin repatriating members of the minority ethnic group next week, Bangladesh officials said.

Police in Burma opened fire at hundreds of protesters angry about a ban on a local festival, killing seven people, officials have said.

Japan's foreign minister has urged Burma's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to guarantee the safe and voluntary return of Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in troubled Rakhine state.

The United States has stepped back from a half-decade effort to forge closer relations with Burma, condemning a top general to a blacklist of shame for his role in atrocities against Rohingya Muslims.

Burma’s military says a forensic investigation has begun after 10 bodies were found in a mass grave in Rakhine state, where security forces have carried out a brutal crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Burma's military says a forensic investigation has begun after 10 bodies were found in a mass grave in Rakhine state, where security forces have carried out a brutal crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed between August and September in a crackdown by Burma’s security forces, according to Doctors Without Borders.

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 has met Burma's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and told her the country's future depends on respecting the rights of "each ethnic group".

Widespread atrocities against Rohingya Muslim women and girls have been orchestrated and perpetrated by Burma’s military and may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict has said.

The United States is declaring that the violence against Rohingya Muslims in Burma constitutes ethnic cleansing.

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

Burma leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said the world is facing instability and conflict in part because illegal immigration spreads terrorism.

The General Assembly's human rights committee approved the resolution sponsored by the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) by a vote of 135-10 with 26 abstentions today.

In a statement, the military said it had interviewed thousands of people during its month-long investigation into the conduct of troops in western Rakhine state after Rohingya insurgents launched a series of attacks there on August 25.

The children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Burma are experiencing a "hell on earth" in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, Unicef has said.

Police say at least 12 people have died after an overcrowded boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burma capsized in the confluence of a river and the Bay of Bengal.

More than 60 people are either confirmed dead or presumed dead following the shipwreck of a boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing from violence in Burma to Bangladesh, the UN migration agency said.

This series of imagery from AP and Getty Images puts their plight in context.

Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Burma, thousands are still flooding across the border in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.

A total of 176 ethnic Rohingya villages are now empty after all of their residents fled during recent violence in Rakhine state, Burma's presidential spokesman said.

Rohingya rebels, whose attack on Burma security forces last month triggered savage military reprisals, have declared a month-long truce as refugees continue to flood across the border into Bangladesh - and scant basic resources, hunger and illness.

Rohingya refugees from Burma packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh have become desperate for scant basic resources and dwindling supplies.

Burmese leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize cannot be revoked in the row over the treatment of Rohingya Muslims, the Norwegian Nobel Institute has said.

The number of Rohingya Muslims to have crossed into Bangladesh from Burma has surged, according to the UN, with an estimated 270,000 arriving in the past two weeks.

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.

Ethnic Rohingya militants in western Burma have launched overnight attacks on more than two dozen police and border outposts, leaving 71 people dead, the government said, in a significant escalation of their armed struggle.

Countess Mountbatten of Burma who survived an IRA blast who took the lives of her father, son and mother-in-law in 1979 has died at the age of 93.

Interpol has joined the hunt for a British teacher wanted over the death of a colleague in Burma.

A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Burma after authorities said they found more than four million methamphetamine pills in his car and his monastery.

A British man who is thought to be a teacher has been found dead in Burma.

Barack Obama has lifted US economic sanctions on the former pariah state of Burma.

US president Barack Obama confirmed America is lifting economic sanctions and restoring trade benefits to former pariah state Burma as he met with Aung San Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner who is now the nation's de facto leader.

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has made clear to foreign diplomats, it does not matter if they call her country Myanmar or its old name, Burma.

More than 100 political prisoners have been freed in Burma under an amnesty ordered by the country's new de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as her first official act.

A trusted ally of ruling party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, took over as Burma's president, officially ending more than 50 years of military-controlled government.

The ceremony ushers the long-time opposition party of Ms Suu Kyi into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule.

Burma's president-elect has proposed an 18-member Cabinet which will include party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former dissident who campaigned for decades to replace the military junta with a democratically elected government.

Burma's parliament has elected Htin Kyaw as the country's new president in a watershed moment which ushers Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule.