A man who was killed while trying to hijack a commercial flight in Bangladesh was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who had been previously arrested in a kidnapping case, officials said.

A group of international students attending a language school in Cork have been left out of pocket after its closed without notice.

Helicopters airlifted food to hungry survivors today while rescuers struggled to reach remote areas devastated by Bangladesh’s worst cyclone in a decade, amid fears the death toll could hit 10,000.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 55 other political activists have been charged by police for their alleged roles in the killings of five rivals during riots last year, news reports said.

A speeding bus packed with passengers veered off the road, crashed into a ditch and burst into flames in eastern Bangladesh, leaving more than 40 passengers dead and many others injured, a police official said.