A helicopter was forced to rescue survivors from the roof of Bangladesh's largest shopping mall, Bashundhara City, a 22-story structure, as a fire raced through the upper levels of the high-rise.

Sunny weather, combined with voter optimism and a huge security presence throughout the country has resulted in a high turnout for 2008 national elections in Bangladesh. The process seems calm compared to previous elections, but there have been some complications with the new digitized voter identification system. Now everyone is looking for the election commission to announce the first results of the Bangladesh elections.

Bangladesh's High Court has thrown out a corruption case brought against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the interim government. The ruling puts a question mark over hundreds of other ongoing trials involving high profile politicians. But as Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the government plans to appeal the verdict in the Bangladesh Supreme Court.

South and Southeast Asian countries are grappling with new outbreaks of bird flu as winter weather sweeps across the region. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the latest outbreaks are still confined primarily to poultry, but one new human death has been reported in Vietnam.

At least three people died and 100 were injured Saturday in Bangladesh when a bridge collapsed under the weight of cyclone survivors.

A shortage of fresh drinking water is causing an outbreak of diarrhea in Bangladesh after last week's Cyclone Sidr lashed the country leaving almost 3,500 dead, local authorities said Wednesday.

Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh killed more that 3,100 people and ruined the country’s coast. Now the authorities ask for more foreign aid to help those who survived the catastrophe.

A large and devastating cyclone that hit Bangladesh has killed thousands of people as the country is desperately recovering from this devastating occurrence. Recent stats have estimated more than 2000 deaths and the death toll keeps climbing.

Decomposed bodies littered B'desh's cyclone ravaged southern coastline sparking fears of epidemic as authorities struggled to provide relief to lakhs of homeless survivors that has so far claimed 3,000 lives.

Cyclone Sidr has swept over Bangladesh, killing some 1100 people, with around 1000 missing and more than 20,000 homes destroyed, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

Officials in Bangladesh say more than 500 people have been killed by a powerful cyclone that has devastated the country's south-west coast.

Bangladesh's Supreme Court has refused bail to former prime minister Khaleda Zia and ordered that a corruption case against her proceed.