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The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.
Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need for food imports. Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a color television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South Asian country's capital, Dhaka. He collected their tails for proof.
Authorities in southern Bangladesh are investigating whether a 13-year-old girl was forced to marry a 75-year-old man as a way to pay off her father's debt, local media reported Sunday.
Bangladesh has awarded three offshore blocks to two global energy companies to explore for gas in the Bay of Bengal, a senior energy official said Tuesday.
Bangladesh has lifted a ban on the video-sharing site YouTube that was imposed because of a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials after a bloody mutiny by border guards, an official said Thursday.
The winner of this week's election landslide in Bangladesh pledged Wednesday to end the South Asian country's politics of violence and called on her archrival to concede defeat and cooperate in restoring democracy.
A 33-year-old Bangladeshi doctor whose family allegedly held her captive for months at home and in a mental hospital will return to work in Britain after a court in Dhaka ordered her parents to release her Sunday, the woman's lawyer said.
The United States will continue to follow Bangladesh closely through its national election process and transition toward democracy after nearly two years of emergency rule, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.
Police in Bangladesh's capital arrested eight members of a hard-line Islamic group for damaging a large outdoor sculpture of a group of white storks, an official said Sunday.
Some 500 women rallied in Bangladesh's capital on Thursday, demanding richer nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions and compensate the impoverished countries that experts believe will be hardest hit by the impacts of climate change.
Bangladesh will likely miss its economic growth target as exports weaken and remittances from workers abroad fall because of the global financial crisis, the World Bank said Wednesday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he hopes Bangladesh can make a peaceful transition to democracy through free and fair elections due in December.
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh's southeastern region are being given food aid after a plague of rats devoured rice crops earlier this year, the United Nations' food agency said Sunday.
A former Bangladeshi prime minister left for the U.S. on Thursday for medical treatment a day after she was released from jail pending a corruption trial, a party leader said.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has criticized Bangladesh's military-backed interim government for alleged wholesale arrests of political activists.
Senior editors and journalists from more than a dozen leading Bangladesh newspapers and television stations have demanded an end to the country's state of emergency and called for greater press freedom.
Bangladesh's military-backed government should lift emergency rule to facilitate open elections that it has promised to hold by the end of the year, a State Department official said Friday.
A Bangladesh court charged former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with corruption Wednesday over contracts awarded to a Canadian oil and gas company in 2001, an investigator said.
For a 13-year-old boy in this impoverished, teeming city, some things are more important than classes — rice, for one.
The extortion trial of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was declared illegal by Bangladesh's High Court on Wednesday, throwing the high-profile case and government efforts to crack down on corruption into turmoil.
Bangladesh bid farewell to the U.S. military Friday after it wrapped up an aid mission to the cyclone-battered country.
International donors pledged hundreds of millions of dollars Wednesday to rebuild Bangladesh's cyclone-ravaged coast, but help wasn't coming fast enough for thousands of homeless survivors who fought over meager rice handouts.
In the days since a devastating cyclone struck impoverished Bangladesh, this village has grappled with impossible questions.
Rescue workers struggled Tuesday to get food, fresh water and shelter to hungry and exhausted survivors of Cyclone Sidr, which has killed 3,150 people and may claim more lives.
Rescue workers struggled Tuesday to get food, fresh water and shelter to hungry and exhausted survivors of Cyclone Sidr, which has killed more than 3,100 people and may claim more lives.
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