Ferry fire leaves 40 dead, 150 injured in Bangladesh

At least 40 people died and over 150 others were injured early Friday after a packed three-storey ferry carrying around 800 passengers caught fire on the Sugandha river in southern Bangladesh,......

Bangladesh: Six militants hanged

Six top Jamaatul Mujaheedin Bangladeshmilitants, convicted of carrying out a string of bombings in 2005 that left two judges dead, were hanged early on Friday. The six militants - Shaikh Abdur......

Blasts rip through Bangladesh courts: 13 killed

At least 13 people, including two policemen and two lawyers, were killed and 50 others injured on Tuesday in twin suicide bomb attacks in Bangladesh by suspected Islamic militants, witnesses and......