Nobel laureate Yunus arrives in Bangladesh to lead interim govt after strife

Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus returned home to strife-torn Bangladesh on Thursday to lead his country back to democracy after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina.

Yunus will head a caretaker government that is being established by the military, which turned on Hasina over the weekend after hundreds of people were killed in the unrest.

The prospect of Yunus standing alongside military leaders was almost unimaginable a week ago, when security forces...