About 164,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh since violence erupted in Burma on August 25, the UN's refugee agency said.

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 26 people, including a politician and three officials from an elite security unit, to death over the politically motivated killings of seven people in 2014.

A woman and a teenager believed to be linked to a banned Islamist militant group blew themselves up during a police raid on a two-storey house in Bangladesh's capital.

An adult Indian elephant that became trapped in a swamp in Bangladesh after being caught up in raging flood waters has died after weeks of struggling for survival.

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 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 group of up to nine attackers took hostages inside a restaurant frequented by both locals and foreigners in a diplomatic zone in Bangladesh's capital, local media reported.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a home-grown Islamist militant over the killing of two gay rights campaigners amid a surge in violent attacks against liberal activists and other minorities in the south Asian nation.

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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 student activist has died after being hacked and shot as he was walking with a friend in the capital of Bangladesh.

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.

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A baby girl has been born with two heads in a hospital in Bangladesh.

A Bangladesh court has allowed police to hold three suspects, including a British citizen, for seven days for interrogation in the murders of two secular bloggers.

Authorities in Bangladesh have filed murder charges against dozens of people for their roles in the 2013 collapse of a garment factory building that killed more than 1,100 people.

The roof of a five-storey cement factory under construction in Bangladesh has collapsed, killing at least four workers and trapping many others, an official said.

Bangladeshi security officials arrested a suspect yesterday over the killing of an American writer Avijit Roy, a prominent critic of extremist Islam, was hacked to death last week as he walked with his wife in Dhaka.

A prominent American blogger known for his writing against religious fundamentalism has been hacked to death by cleaver-wielding attackers in Bangladesh’s capital.

A ferry carrying up to 140 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh yesterday after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 48 people.

A ferry carrying up to 140 passengers has capsized in central Bangladesh after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 48 people.

A leading member of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party has been sentenced to death by a tribunal dealing with war crimes involving the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.

Attackers in Bangladesh have thrown crude fire bombs at a packed bus and a moving truck in two separate incidents, killing at least nine people and injuring 30.

Japan said it was still trying to secure the release of two Japanese hostages held by Islamic State militants after a deadline to pay a ransom passed and there was no immediate word on their fate.

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A special tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced to death a senior leader of the largest Islamist party, the second capital sentence in a week for the mass killings during the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971.

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A ferry with 200 people on board has capsized on a river in Bangladesh.

A year after the garment factory building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where over 1,100 people died, author Tansy E Hoskins has written an expose of the fashion industry.

The two owners of a Bangladesh garment factory who are facing homicide charges for a 2012 fire that killed 112 workers surrendered to a court and have been denied bail.

Rescuers in Bangladesh have recovered at least 11 bodies after an apparently overcrowded trawler caught fire and sank.

Bangladesh’s ruling party has won one of the most violent elections in the country’s history, marred by street fighting, low turnout and a boycott by the opposition which made the result a foregone conclusion.

A Bangladeshi court has issued arrest warrants for two owners of a clothing factory and four of their employees on homicide charges over the deaths of 112 workers in a fire last year.

At least one person has died after security forces and opposition activists clashed in Bangladesh’s capital, as thousands of police took to the streets to foil a mass rally calling on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to cancel upcoming elections.

Bangladesh has executed an opposition leader convicted of war crimes hours after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal.

A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced a senior member of the opposition to death for his involvement in the killing of hundreds of people during the county’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971.

A 22-year-old Bangladeshi man who begged for leniency after pleading guilty to terrorism charges for trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.