With their first ever world cup century, the Bangladesh side piled on the pressure and reduced England to a mess of fallen wickets and bruised egos.
The arrest of two of Bangladesh’s foremost human rights activists has brought to light the country’s severe crackdown on journalists and NGOs.
Chronic flooding known as water-logging has forced students and teachers in Bangladesh to find creative ways to carry on learning.
South Africa’s labour laws have their pros and cons, but who do the tough legislations ultimately protect?
Bangladeshi rescuers have found a woman survivor in the rubble of a garment factory complex which collapsed and killed 1 000 people in April.
The mayor of the Bangladesh municipality where a factory building collapsed and killed more than 400 people has been suspended, says a minister.
Police have made a series of arrests over Bangladesh’s factory collapse as relatives lashed out at rescuers struggling to detect signs of life.
A building that housed garment factories has collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital, killing at least 70 people and trapping many in the rubble.
A fire has swept through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital killing over 100 people in the country’s worst-ever factory blaze.
Exam cheats in Bangladesh have been caught receiving answers on mobile phones disguised as wrist watches, police said after busting a criminal racket.
Bangladesh border guards have turned back three more boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims who have fled religious violence in Burma.
Bangladesh have reacted too late in trying to have the result of the Asia Cup final overturned, according to a Pakistan Cricket Board chief.
Authorities say the death toll in this week’s ferry disaster rose to 116 when villagers found four more bodies floating in the water.
The death toll of a ferry accident in Bangladesh has risen to 112 as rescue workers and divers continue to pull scores of bodies from the wreckage.
Recovery workers are trying to raise the wreckage of a ferry that capsized on a river in Bangladesh while carrying about 200 people.
At least seven people are dead and another 150 are missing after a ferry sank in Bangladesh. So far, 35 survivors have been found.
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/ 12 December 2011
Abdur Rehman carried Pakistan to an innings and 184 run-flogging of Bangladesh on the penultimate day of their first Test.
Pakistan was put in a commanding position in the opening Test against Bangladesh thanks to impressive batting by Mohammad Hafeez and Younis Khan.
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/ 29 October 2011
Kieran Powell and Kraigg Brathwaite hit maiden half-centuries to help West Indies reach 160-2 at tea on day one of the second Test against Bangladesh.
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/ 10 October 2011
The glaring absence of Chris Gayle stood out as the West Indies prepared to open their Bangladesh tour with a Twenty20 international in Bangladesh.
A $1.2-billion World Bank credit to Bangladesh to finance the country’s longest river bridge has been suspended.
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/ 20 September 2011
Jute — a fibre derived from reed-like plants — is seeing a broad international renaissance for use in shopping bags to replace polythene.
Zimbabwe snatched an astonishing victory over Bangladesh at Harare Sports Club on Tuesday to win their five-match ODI series three up and two to play.
Zimbabwe scored a 175-run lead over Bangladesh with six second innings wickets remaining but were left to rue a collapse on the third day of the Test.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner discusses recent attacks on his schemes to relieve poverty, from within Bangladesh and abroad.
As a teenager, Babul Miah was sent to prison for a murder he says he never committed but the promise of an early release turned him into a hangman.
A ferry carrying more than 100 people capsized in Bangladesh on Thursday after colliding with another vessel, killing at least 28 people, police said.
Shane Watson struck a world record of 15 sixes to take Australia to a crushing nine wicket victory over Bangladesh in the second ODI on Monday.
At the start of the World Cup South Africa captain Graeme Smith finally snapped when he was asked yet again about his team’s reputation for choking.
Bangladesh is what South Africa was nine months ago: a boisterous puppy dog, proud and eager to show off all its new tricks.
Skipper Shahid Afridi led from the front as formidable Pakistan crushed the West Indies by 10 wickets to reach the World Cup semifinals on Wednesday.
SA captain Graeme Smith said his team was on the right track to go all the way in the World Cup after an impressive demolition of Bangladesh.