Just hours after the official death toll passed 1,000, rescue workers could be heard cheering at the site of April's horrific garment factory collapse in Bangladesh. Something amazing had happened: A survivor, who'd survived 17 harrowing days trapped under rubble, had been found and rescued.

The death toll for the collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh has passed 1,000 and is still rising.

Sohel Rana, the politically "untouchable" Bangladeshi political boss, businessman, and alleged drug runner, has finally been touched. All it took was 400 deaths. Rana, the owner (and namesake) of the building whose horrific collapse injured thousands and killed over 400 people last week, was arrested earlier this week, and throughout Wednesday, May Day protesters were calling for his execution.

A fire broke out at the collapsed factory building in Bangladesh, hampering rescue efforts. The death toll for the disaster currently stands at 377 and is expected to rise. The building's owner was arrested on Sunday.

The owner of the illegally-constructed building that collapsed earlier this week and killed 377 people (with that number sure to rise) was arrested Sunday as he attempted to flee the country. Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested by an Bangladeshi commando force at a border crossing in western Bangladesh. He was brought by helicopter back to the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, where he will face negligence charges.

Rescue workers in Bangladesh on Friday rushed to find survivors of Wednesday's horrific garment-factory collapse—but the death toll nevertheless climbed above 300, more than three times as high as initial reports.

The death toll in yesterday's garment factory collapse in Bangladesh is now over 200. The Age reports that even after police ordered the factory shut down, supervisors told workers that "their pay would be docked if they did not return to work."

A day after cracks were discovered in the building's edifice—but supervisors forced workers to work anyway—an eight-story garment factory and commercial center in Bangladesh collapsed, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds more. The disaster is the latest in a string of horrific workplace accidents at facilities owned and operated by the country's garment industry, which is among the world's largest—and cheapest.

We're busy dealing with our own censorship issues here in the United States, but people in Bangladesh are kicking it up a notch (BAM!), by calling for the death penalty for any blogger that insults Islam.

In Bangladesh, a Weinergate very different from the one preoccupying America's Twitternet has emerged. There, a woman cut off her neighbor's penis after he allegedly broke into her house and tried to rape her.

In Bangladesh, a country of 160 million, some 77 million people have been poisoned by arsenic in the drinking water, according to a 10-year Lancet study. The WHO calls it "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history." [BBC]