An Indian footballer has died five days after sustaining a serious injury while celebrating a goal.

The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh today, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds and forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.

A British scientist has pleaded with Indian kidnappers, who seized her father in March and failed to release him after getting a £12,000 (€17,200) ransom, to set him free.