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ed at the end of a protest against the police after they shot dead a young man on Thursday.

The only remaining senior member of President Obama's original economics team, Timothy Geithner, has agreed to stay on as treasury secretary. It had been reported that he intended to quit after the US debt ceiling was raised in order to be with his family in New York.

Five Bangladeshi hostages flew home on Sunday more than seven months after they were kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Jill McGivering has more.

The five men were part of a group of workers employed by a South Korean company. They were building a road north of Mazar-e-Sharif when they were seized by militants last December. One engineer was shot dead; two other men were released almost immediately, but the remaining five were held by the insurgents for more than seven months. Mohammad Aminul Islam was one of them. On arrival in Dhaka, he told the BBC that the Taliban wouldn't say exactly why they'd been targeted. The militants used to say that as fellow Muslims, the Bangladeshis shouldn't be working for the Americans, and they complained that the work the team was doing in building roads was making it more difficult for the insurgents to plant roadside bombs.

The authorities in Bahrain have freed two former MPs from the Shia opposition after several months in custody. The lawmakers, Jawad Fayrouz and Matar Matar, were arrested in early May after they resigned from parliament over the handling of anti-government protests. Mr Matar told the BBC they were beaten in prison.