A teenage seamstress who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed Bangladesh garment factory building has left hospital with a new job at an international hotel chain.

The defects and errors that led to the world’s deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to “extremely poor quality” construction materials, a committee appointed by Bangladesh’s government concluded.

Benetton has become the latest global retailer to agree to sign a one-of-a-kind pact to improve safety at Bangladesh factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers.

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 fire at a sweater manufacturer killed eight people — including a senior police officer, a Bangladeshi politician, and a top clothing industry official — barely two weeks after the collapse of a building housing other garment factories where the death toll approached 1,000.

A fire tore through an 11-storey building housing a clothes factory and residential complex in Bangladesh's capital, killing at least eight people, including the owner.

The death toll from last month’s collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh has passed 700, police said today.

Bangladesh’s finance minister has downplayed the impact of the factory-building collapse on his country’s garment industry, saying he didn’t think it was “really serious” hours after the 500th body was pulled from the debris.

More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the Bangladesh building that collapsed last week, authorities said today after an engineer was arrested in connection with the disaster.

The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, in order to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed hundreds of factory workers.

A Bangladesh court has ordered the government to confiscate the property of the owner of the collapsed garment factory building in which nearly 400 people died.

Police have been given 15 days to interrogate the owner of a Bangladesh building that collapsed last week, killing at least 384 people.

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.

Police in Bangladesh arrested two owners of a garment factory in a shoddily-constructed building that collapsed this week, killing at least 324 people, as protests spread to a second city today with hundreds of people throwing stones and setting fire to vehicles.

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.

As Bangladesh reels from the deaths of hundreds of garment workers in a building collapse, the refusal of global retailers to pay for nationwide factory inspections is bringing scrutiny to an industry that has profited from a country notorious for its hazardous workplaces and subsistence-level wages.

Crews bored deeper into the wreckage of a collapsed garment-factory building in Bangladesh today, hoping for miracle rescues which would stop the death toll rising much higher.

Survivors from a garment factory that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 260 people described a deafening bang and tremors before the eight-floor building crashed down under them.

Police ordered a Bangladesh garment building with deep cracks visible in the walls evacuated the day before its deadly collapse, but the factories flouted the order, officials say.

An eight-story building that housed garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh yesterday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than 1,000.

An eight-storey building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital this morning, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more in the rubble, officials said.