Nuzzling her mother Tonja, taking a dip in a pool in her enclosure and sniffing the fresh air, the still unnamed three and a half month old seemed oblivious to the phalanx of cameras gathered for her coming-out at the Tierpark zoo in the east of the capital.

Under grey skies, the cub splashed in the water, lolled on the grey stones outside the breeding burrow where she has lived since her birth on December 1 and gnawed on tree bark as she explored her new surroundings.

Following her media photo-op, she will be presented to the public on Saturday.

The mortality of polar bears tends to be very high in the first weeks. Tonja lost three of her cubs in less than two years.

To the great relief of her keepers, the new female has made it through the crucial first three months when a captive cub’s chances of survival hang in the balance.

“We’re very happy with her development,” the zoo’s polar bear vet Florian Sicks said in a statement.

Tierpark is hoping she will take the place in Germans’ hearts once occupied by Knut, the universally adored polar bear born in 2006 and hand-reared by west Berlin zookeepers after being rejected by his mother.

Knut’s worldwide fame led to appearances on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine and on German postage stamps and brought in millions of euros from visits and merchandising.

But the cuddly icon died suddenly of a suspected brain tumour in 2011 at the age of four, sparking grief amongst his army of fans.

A bronze statue of Knut now stands in the west Berlin Zoo.

Its Arctic habitat threatened by global warming, the polar bear is listed as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

A European Union breeding plan is attempting to boost numbers of the bear, whose population in the wild stands at around 26,000, according to the IUCN.

“In the future, whenever we send our cricket team abroad, we will do that after examining and reviewing the security matters of the host countries,” she said.

The prime minister said this while inaugurating the four-lane second Kanchpur Bridge on the river Shitalakkhya, four-lane flyover at Bhulta and railway overpass at Latifpur on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban in Dhaka.

She also said that Bangladesh always gives the highest security whenever any foreign cricket team comes to play here.

“We give them appropriate security and we always do that,” she added.

The prime minister’s comments came as some of Bangladesh national cricket team players narrowly escaped from a shooting in a mosque at Christchurch in New Zealand that left 49 devotees dead including three Bangladeshi and injured dozen others.

“Our cricket players were supposed to go to that mosque, they went there, but on their way an injured woman did not let them enter the mosque and the cricket players escaped,” she said.

Condemning the hatred, terrorist and militant attacks in New Zealand, Sheikh Hasina said that there is nothing more heinous than killing people while they are performing their prayers.

“I will hope that the world community not only condemns this incident, but also take steps to eliminate militancy and terrorism forever,” she said.

The prime minister said she always believes that militants and terrorists have no religion, country or nation. “They are just terrorists … actions will have to be taken against them considering them as the terrorists,” she said.

She mentioned that Bangladesh with its hectic efforts managed to protect the county from militancy and terrorism although many people raise many types of question.

“Militancy and terrorism could never bring any welfare to anyone except bad things,” she said.

Talking about religious freedom, Sheikh Hasina said that it is the right of all people and Bangladesh has established the rights for all appropriately.

“People from all faiths can perform their respective religions freely here,” she said.

Media reports said the shooting at two crowded mosques during Friday prayers in Christchurch left at least 49 dead and many others injured.

Forty-one of those slain were at the Masjid al Noor in central Christchurch, police said, adding seven more were killed at the Linwood Ave mosque, three of them outside of the building.

Here is what we know so far about the attacks:

What happened?

During afternoon prayers on Friday — Islam’s holy day — a gunman opened fire inside the Masjid al Noor mosque in central Christchurch, killing forty-one. Another seven were slain at a second mosque five kilometres away in suburban Linwood, three of them outside the building. It is unclear where the remaining victim died.

Witnesses said some victims were shot at close range, with a Palestinian man at one of the mosques saying he saw someone shot in the head.

He described shots fired in quick succession and scenes of panic as people started running out “covered in blood”.

Another said he saw his wife lying dead outside as he escaped, with one more saying he witnessed children being shot.

What was the police response?

Police imposed a city-wide lockdown, sending armed officers to a number of scenes, and two IEDs (improvised explosive devices) were found attached to a vehicle and neutralised.

Three men and a woman were detained. One of the men was later charged with murder, and two others remained in custody, though their role in the attacks was not clear.

Police warned Muslims not to visit mosques “anywhere in New Zealand”, a country of nearly five million where mass shootings are rare.

Amid heightened tensions, the military carried out controlled explosions on two bags left unattended in central Auckland, although they turned out not to be suspicious.

Christchurch city council offered a helpline for parents looking for kids attending a mass climate change rally nearby.

New Zealand police also evacuated residents living near a property in the city of Dunedin, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) from Christchurch, that they believe is linked to the attacks.

Who were the victims?

A Jordanian man was killed in the attack, the country’s foreign ministry said, the first and only victim identified so far.

People from around the world were in the mosque at the time of the assault.

Among them were were six Indonesians — three of whom were reported safe, the country’s foreign minister Retno Marsudi said, adding they were searching for the others.

A Saudi Arabian man, two Malaysians, two Turks and at least five Jordanians were among those wounded.

India’s high commissioner to New Zealand said nine people of Indian nationality or origin were missing.

Young children were among 48 people being treated at Christchurch Hospital.

Some narrowly escaped the carnage, including the Bangladesh cricket team who arrived at the Masjid al Noor mosque minutes after the shooting began.

Manager Khaled Mashud said the team saw “bloodied people coming out of the mosque… we kept our heads down in the bus in case of any firing”.

What is known about the attacker?

He has not been officially named, but Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he was an Australian citizen, and described him as “an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist”.

He published a racist manifesto on Twitter before the shooting then livestreamed his rampage on Facebook.

Entitled “The Great Replacement”, the 74-page manifesto said the gunman — who identified himself as an Australia-born, 28-year-old white male from a low-income, working-class family — had wanted to attack Muslims.

The gunman also said he had travelled for several years, visiting France, Spain and Portugal, but Australian media reported before going to New Zealand he had been a personal fitness trainer in the town of Grafton north of Sydney.

The title of the manifesto has the same name as a conspiracy theory originating in France that believes European populations are being displaced in their homelands by immigrant groups with higher birth rates.

A number of pictures were posted to a social media account of a semi-automatic weapon covered in the names of historical figures, many of whom were involved in the killing of Muslims.

The shooter identified himself as “Brenton Tarrant” – a white, 28-year-old Australia-born man, NZ Herald reported. The livestream began as the gunman drove to the Al Noor Mosque in Deans Ave, parking his car in a nearby driveway.

According to NZ Herald, the beige stationwagon contains a cache of weapons and ammunition in the front passenger seat and boot, along with petrol cannisters.

The gunman was armed with at least one semi-automatic firearm and multiple ammunition clips. Messages in white writing were scrawled on the gun and ammunition.

Once inside he began shooting indiscriminately. A second victim tried to crawl for their life in the main hallway but was shot several more times.

People cowering in corners of a room were all shot as the gunman blocked the hallway, cutting off anyone’s attempt to escape.

The gunman stalked the mosque rooms firing repeatedly, stopping several times to re-load, NZ Herald reported.

He then exited the mosque through the front door – after just under three minutes inside and headed into the street – firing random shots as cars drove past.

He returned to a beige Subaru stationwagon parked in a nearby driveway to get more ammunition from the boot.

He fired more shots on the street at no apparent target and said: “Looks like we won’t get the bird today boys”.

He then re-entered the mosque to check for survivors – and began firing again into the people lying motionless.

The 17-minute video ends as the gunman drives away from the scene at speed.

In a lenghty manifesto published online the supposed shooter outlined who he was and why he carried out the massacre at the Christchurch mosque, NZ Herald reported.

The MAX has been grounded worldwide following the disaster — the second involving the model in five months — and the fallout has left the company, regulators and airlines scrambling to respond.

“We are pausing the delivery of the 737 MAX until we come up with a solution,” a Boeing spokesman said, adding that “we are going to continue the production, but we are assessing our capacities.”

France’s BEA air safety agency confirmed it has received the black box recorders from the plane, which was just four months old and crashed minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday.

Starting Friday, BEA investigators will try to retrieve information from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, which were damaged in the disaster.

Thousands of miles (kilometers) away, distraught families were demanding answers as they visited the deep black crater where the plane smashed into a field outside the capital, disintegrating on impact.

Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest carrier, sent the black boxes to France because it does not have the equipment to analyze the data.

The information that they contain helps explain 90 percent of all crashes, according to aviation experts.

On Wednesday, US authorities said new evidence showed similarities between the Ethiopia crash and that of a Lion Air flight in Indonesia in October that killed 189 people.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said findings from the crash site near Addis Ababa and “newly refined satellite data” warranted “further investigation of the possibility of a shared cause for the two incidents.”

– Boeing shares hit –

An FAA emergency order grounded 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft until further notice, effectively taking the aircraft out of the skies globally.

The move came after a growing number of airlines and countries had already decided not to fly the planes or ban them from their airspace until it is determined there are no safety issues.

US President Donald Trump told reporters the “safety of the American people and all peoples is our paramount concern.”

FAA acting chief Daniel Elwell said the agency had been “working tirelessly” to find the cause of the accident but faced delays because of the damage to the flight data recorders.

The new information shows “the track of that airplane was close enough to the track of the Lion Air flight” to warrant the grounding of the airplanes so more information can be gathered to determine if there is a link, Elwell said Wednesday on CNBC.

Boeing’s shares have fallen 12 percent in the days after the crash in Ethiopia, wiping out nearly $30 billion in value.

The MAX series is Boeing’s fastest-selling model, but it is still relatively new with fewer than 500 in service.

There are 74 registered in the United States and 387 in use worldwide with 59 carriers, according to the FAA.

– Pilots’ concerns –

The accounts of the recent crashes were echoed in concerns registered by US pilots on how the MAX 8 behaves.

At least four American pilots complained following the Lion Air crash that the aircraft would suddenly pitch downward shortly after takeoff, according to documents reviewed by AFP on the Aviation Safety Reporting System, a voluntary incident database maintained by NASA.

In two anonymous reports on flights just after the Lion Air disaster, pilots disconnected the autopilot and corrected the plane’s trajectory.

It was unclear if US transport authorities review the database or investigated the incidents. However, the FAA said this week it had ordered Boeing to update its flight software and training.

Questions about the Lion Air crash have honed in on an automated stall prevention system, the MCAS, designed to automatically point the plane’s nose downwards if it is in danger of stalling.

According to the flight data recorder, the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 struggled to control the aircraft as the MCAS repeatedly pushed the nose down following takeoff.

The Ethiopian Airlines pilots reported similar difficulties before their aircraft plunged to the ground.

According to The New York Times, air traffic controllers observed the Ethiopian Airlines plane “oscillating up and down by hundreds of feet” prior to the crash.

Speaking in a “panicky voice,” the doomed aircraft’s captain requested permission to return to the airport almost immediately after takeoff as the plane “accelerated to abnormal speed,” the newspaper reported Thursday, citing a person who had reviewed the air traffic communications.

“Break break, request back to home,” the Times quoted the pilot as saying just prior to the crash. “Request vector for landing.”

Boeing was criticized after the Lion Air crash for allegedly failing to adequately inform 737 pilots about the functioning of the stall prevention system.

Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam said the doomed flight’s captain Yared Mulugeta Getachew, 29, was an experienced aviator with more than 8,000 flight hours.