The son of a former Bangladesh prime minister has been charged with taking a €1.9m bribe to cover up the murder of a businessman.

Police questioned eight suspects today after a suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded Bangladesh street, killing himself and six others in the latest attack blamed on extremists wanting to create an Islamic state.

Bombs exploded at court buildings in three towns in Bangladesh today, killing one person and wounding several others.

A nine-storey clothes factory in Bangladesh collapsed following a boiler explosion early today, killing at least four people and trapping at least 200 others.

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.