Nobel laureate Yunus returns to Bangladesh to take over as interim leader

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has returned to Bangladesh where he will take office as interim leader (Michel Euler/AP)

Bangladesh’s next leader, Muhammad Yunus, returned from an overseas trip on Thursday, and will take office later in the day, as he seeks to restore calm and rebuild the country following an uprising that ended the 15-year, increasingly autocratic rule of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

He landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and was welcomed by the country’s military chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, who was flanked by navy and air force officials.