A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued yesterday — a miraculous moment set against a scene of horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000.

A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued today, a miraculous moment set against a scene of horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000.

Rescue workers in Bangladesh have given up hope of finding any more survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed five days ago and began using heavy machinery to remove the rubble and look for bodies, an official said.

Two owners of garment factories in a Bangladesh building that collapsed have been arrested as public fury mounts over the accident that left at least 324 dead.

Hundreds of Bangladeshi border guards who challenged the government in a deadly 2009 mutiny have been sentenced to up to seven years in prison.

Jill McGivering

The Supreme Court rejected final appeals today by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh’s independence leader in a military coup, a government lawyer said.

Troops helped police search for Bangladeshi border guards who failed to report back to bases today after their failed mutiny and murder of dozens of officers.

Seventy-two officers were still missing today after a two-day mutiny by Bangladesh’s border guards, as the death toll rose to 76 with the discovery of 10 more bodies in mass graves at the force’s headquarters, the military said.

Firefighters today resumed their search of the headquarters compound of Bangladesh’s border guards after uncovering the grisly results of the force’s two-day mutiny – dozens of senior officers massacred, their bodies hurriedly dumped into shallow graves and sewers.

Dozens of murdered officers were found in hastily-dug graves as the clean-up began today after Bangladesh’s brief military mutiny.

Bangladesh’s first election in seven years was called largely free, fair and the most peaceful in decades, but the bitter feelings between the two women who have dominated politics re-emerged as the loser rejected her archrival’s win.

Bangladesh’s ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia today rejected election results that gave her arch-rival Sheikh Hasina a two-thirds parliamentary majority.

An election official says the political alliance headed by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has won a landslide victory in Bangladesh’s first election in seven years.

The head of Bangladesh’s military-backed interim government pledged today’s election for prime minister – the country’s first poll in seven years – would be free and fair and urged political parties to accept the results.

An Election Commission official said Bangladesh’s general elections scheduled to take place on December 18 may be delayed by 10 days if all political parties agree.

Police in Bangladesh arrested former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on corruption charges today, the latest in a series of moves by the military-backed government to undermine a political elite widely viewed as corrupt.

Security forces arrested Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina at her home in capital Dhaka today, in a massive operation involving more than 1,000 police and troops.

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was blocked today from boarding a flight home from London after the military-backed government barred her from returning.

A Bangladeshi court issued an arrest warrant today against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been charged with abetting murder, a news report said.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 55 other political activists have been charged by police for their alleged roles in the killings of five rivals during riots last year, news reports said.

Bangladesh’s new interim leader took charge of security agencies and the election commission today as mass arrests continued days after the president declared a state of emergency following weeks of deadly unrest ahead of disputed elections.

Separate clashes between rival political activists and police left one man dead and about 65 people injured, as a major political alliance in Bangladesh staged a nationwide transport blockade today to force electoral reforms, police said.

Nearly 10,000 security forces fanned out across the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka today during an opposition-sponsored general strike that shut down schools and stores and disrupted traffic.

SEVERAL newspapers carried front page pictures of the “utterly British” Colwyn Road where Shehzad Tanweer lived in a semi-detached white pebbledash house.

THE eldest of the suspects to be named, 30-year-old Mohammed Sadique Khan lived in Lees Holm, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, with his wife Hasina and their baby daughter.

A grenade that exploded at an opposition rally in north-eastern Bangladesh killed a former finance minister and at least four other people while wounding about 100 others, police and doctors said today.

AN ANGRY mob set fire to a passenger train and protesters clashed with police across Bangladesh yesterday, leaving dozens of people injured.

An angry mob set fire to a passenger train in central Bangladesh today, injuring at least 20 people.

At least a dozen people were killed and hundreds injured in a series of bomb blasts at an opposition rally in Bangladesh’s capital today, witnesses and news reports said.

Riot police today fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who were demonstrating against the repeal of a law requiring public buildings display a portrait of Bangladesh’s founding father.

Dozens of political rivals exchanged gunfire in a village in eastern Bangladesh, killing three children, including a four-year-old boy, who were caught in the crossfire, police said today.

Bangladeshi schools and stores have closed and most traffic has halted in protest at a bomb attack on the country's main opposition leader.

Authorities have ordered an investigation into the weekend bombing at a ruling party political rally in which at least 22 people were killed.