At least 10 worshippers have been killed by lightning outside a mosque in Bangladesh.

Rebel soldiers in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka surrendered today after being confronted with government tanks.

Three Islamic militants who tried to murder the British ambassador to Bangladesh were sentenced to death today.

At least eight people were killed when two trains collided in eastern Bangladesh today, a railway official said.

Security forces patrolled the quiet streets of six major Bangladesh cities today, enforcing an indefinite curfew imposed by the military-backed government to quell unrest by students demanding an end to emergency rule.

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.

A 4.6-magnitude quake jolted north-eastern Bangladesh today, but no damage or casualties were immediately reported, the country’s top meteorologists said.

Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have inundated homes and crops in north-eastern Bangladesh, stranding more than 200,000 people.

At least 17 people were wounded today when dozens of small bomb blasts rattled the capital Dhaka and districts across Bangladesh, police said, as authorities worked to count casualties and asses the damage from the explosions.

Dozens of bomb blasts shook the capital Dhaka and districts across Bangladesh today, police said, as authorities scrambled to count casualties and assess damage.

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.

At least 50 people were injured when a bomb exploded in the car park of a hotel in a north-eastern Bangladesh city where the opposition-backed mayor was holding a meeting, witnesses and doctors said.

Police have arrested four men over the bombing of a Muslim shrine that killed three people and injured about 100, including the newly-appointed British ambassador to Bangladesh.

The British High Commissioner was wounded by a bomb blast at a Muslim saint’s shrine in Bangladesh that killed two people today.

The British High Commissioner was injured when a bomb exploded at a Muslim saint’s shrine in northeastern Bangladesh today, police and witnesses said.

A bomb exploded at a gathering marking the anniversary of a Muslim saint’s death in Bangladesh today, killing two people and injuring about 35 others, police said.

Nearly 150,000 people have been stranded in their homes after heavy rains inundated northern Bangladesh, officials said today.

Hundreds of people reported missing after floods and landslides killed at least 35 on a remote Indonesian island have turned up safe.

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains have trapped nearly 50,000 people in their villages and damaged hundreds of houses in northern Bangladesh.

A ceasefire began today along the India-Bangladesh border after two days of fighting over a disputed area between the countries’ forces killed 19 soldiers, officials said.

Several people are feared dead after five sections of an express train carrying 500 passengers in Bangladesh derailed and plunged off a bridge.