diff --git a/searx/engines/bing_news.py b/searx/engines/bing_news.py
index 943bf882..a2397c48 100644
--- a/searx/engines/bing_news.py
+++ b/searx/engines/bing_news.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def request(query, params):
 def response(resp):
     results = []
 
-    rss = etree.fromstring(resp.text)
+    rss = etree.fromstring(resp.content)
 
     ns = rss.nsmap