Two journalism groups have announced plans to honor a Sri Lankan reporter who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for articles that criticized the military.
Sri Lanka summoned a U.N. official to protest remarks by an agency spokesman about a civilian "bloodbath" in the government's war against Tamil militants, Foreign Ministry sources told CNN Tuesday.
Two senior Indian officials met with the Sri Lankan president Friday in Colombo to address the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn island nation.
The ambush by up to a dozen gunmen of a bus carrying members of the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore is the realization of fears long held by the sport's leading players.
Military officials in Sri Lanka said they shot down a Tamil Tiger aircraft near the Colombo International Airport on Friday, in an air engagement with rebels that killed two people and left about 50 wounded.
A crusading Sri Lankan journalist shot dead last week knew he would be killed -- he said so in a dramatic, posthumously published column touching a raw nerve in his war-torn island nation.
Colombo has been hit by a second bomb blast in only 24 hours following the fall of the Tamil Tigers' capital to government troops.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up outside air force headquarters Friday in Colombo, killing two air force police officers and a member of the bomb-disposal unit, authorities said.
The Tamil Tigers have been invited by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to lay down their arms after government forces retook the city of Kilinochchi Friday, once the center of power for the rebel group.
Five members of the Sri Lanka's Civil Defense Force (CDF) were killed in a suicide blast in Sri Lanka at a church outside the capital of Colombo Sunday morning, police said.
Two journalism groups have announced plans to honor a Sri Lankan reporter who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for articles that criticized the military.
Sri Lanka summoned a U.N. official to protest remarks by an agency spokesman about a civilian "bloodbath" in the government's war against Tamil militants, Foreign Ministry sources told CNN Tuesday.
Two senior Indian officials met with the Sri Lankan president Friday in Colombo to address the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn island nation.
The ambush by up to a dozen gunmen of a bus carrying members of the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore is the realization of fears long held by the sport's leading players.
Military officials in Sri Lanka said they shot down a Tamil Tiger aircraft near the Colombo International Airport on Friday, in an air engagement with rebels that killed two people and left about 50 wounded.
A crusading Sri Lankan journalist shot dead last week knew he would be killed -- he said so in a dramatic, posthumously published column touching a raw nerve in his war-torn island nation.
Colombo has been hit by a second bomb blast in only 24 hours following the fall of the Tamil Tigers' capital to government troops.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up outside air force headquarters Friday in Colombo, killing two air force police officers and a member of the bomb-disposal unit, authorities said.
The Tamil Tigers have been invited by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to lay down their arms after government forces retook the city of Kilinochchi Friday, once the center of power for the rebel group.
Five members of the Sri Lanka's Civil Defense Force (CDF) were killed in a suicide blast in Sri Lanka at a church outside the capital of Colombo Sunday morning, police said.
Tamil Tiger rebel aircraft bombed a power station outside Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, late Tuesday, military sources said.
A Sri Lankan government minister narrowly escaped injury Thursday when a suicide bomber in a car detonated explosives, police said.
As an account manager for credit card giant MBNA, Cate Colombo spent four years speaking to customers, answering questions about interest rates and waiving late fees.
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory
At least 50 people were detained during a house-to-house search following two bus bombings in Sri Lanka which killed at least 22 people Friday, police said.
At least 22 people were killed Friday in two bus bombings in Sri Lanka.
A suicide bomber killed 16 people -- 12 of them police officers -- outside a police station in northern Sri Lanka Monday morning, authorities told CNN.
A bomb ripped through part of a packed passenger train during evening rush hour Monday, killing eight people and wounding 70 others near the Sri Lankan capital
A bomb hidden on the overhead rack of a bus in a Colombo suburb exploded Friday evening, killing 24 civilians and wounding 40 others, Sri Lankan authorities said
A bomb exploded on a bus Friday evening in a Colombo suburb, killing 23 people and injuring 52, police sources told CNN.
More than 100 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and another 400 wounded Wednesday when troops attempted to advance toward a stronghold of the Tamil Tigers rebel organization, highly placed army sources told CNN.
A senior cabinet minister and at least 13 other people, including police and government officials, were killed when a suicide bomber exploded at the start of a marathon race just outside of the capital city Colombo Sunday, Sri Lankan police said.
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90
A bomb exploded inside a bus near Colombo, injuring at least two people Saturday, according to Sri Lankan police.
A series of explosions tore through Sri Lanka Monday as the country celebrated its independence day.
Twelve people were killed and almost 100 wounded, most of them students, when a woman blew herself up near a train as it was pulling into a station Sunday in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, police said.
A bomb detonated Saturday aboard a bus parked at a bus station in the Sri Lankan tourist town of Dambulla, killing 13 people and wounding others, some of them critically, ahead of independence celebrations, police said.
At least 26 people were killed and more than 50 were wounded Wednesday in a pair of attacks in southern Sri Lanka, authorities said.
A bomb exploded Friday night at one of the main railroad stations in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, slightly injuring one person, police said.
Despite some successes since the reopening of hostilities, government boasts that they are about to defeat the rebel Tamil Tigers are premature
Hours after a roadside bomb killed a Sri Lankan minister, another explosion ripped through the capital Tuesday evening, injuring two bystanders.
A bomb blast hit a Sri Lankan army bus Wednesday morning in Colombo's Slave Island district, killing at least four people, including at least two soldiers, and wounding 28 others, military sources said.
Dilhan Fernando gathers a fistful of earth and surveys his family's sprawling estate. "What's grown on that field," he says, pointing to lush cultivation on a distant misty hill, "will differ dramatically from what's grown over here." He lets the dirt sift through his fingers, as if for emphasis. "And they will both be superb drinking."
Court orders a halt to the mass eviction of Tamils from the capital, but their fear of persecution remains
A remote-controlled mine detonated Monday near a truck carrying police commandoes in a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital, killing six civilians and wounding 25 people, most of them civilian bystanders, police said.
At least four Sri Lankan soldiers and two civilians were wounded Thursday when a Claymore mine exploded near a military bus, just outside Colombo's bustling commercial district, police said.
At 1:50 a.m. on Sunday, the Mad Max-esque Road Warrior air force of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam launched a raid on Colombo, while most of the city was watching Sri Lanka's cricketing heroes succumb to Australia in the final of cricket's World Cup, being played a dozen time zones away in Barbados in front of their junketing president.
The Tamil Tiger rebel group has claimed responsibility for the Saturday bombing of two fuel installations that prompted heavy security, a two-hour blackout in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, and disrupted activity at its airport.
A machine for the home that can make anything, even itself sounds like the dream of a science fiction fan, but a device using open source software developed at Cornell University has been designed to do just that. Could it represent the dawn of the arts and crafts movement for the digital age or open the gateway to the destruction of intellectual property rights and copyright?
Tamil Tiger rebels used two light aircraft to bomb and strafe an air force base next to Colombo International Airport, killing two airmen and wounding 10 others, a spokesman for the group's political wing told CNN.
Sri Lankan police said at least 15 passengers were killed and 30 more were wounded when a bomb ripped through a bus en route from the country's capital, Colombo, to a tourist resort town Saturday.
More than 90 Sri Lankan sailors were killed Monday afternoon when an explosives-laden truck rammed into their convoy, Defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told CNN.
At least 20 Sri Lankan sailors were killed and more than 50 were injured Monday afternoon when an explosives-laden truck rammed into their convoy.
Norwegian peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer is to meet Tamil Tiger rebel leaders Saturday, a day after deadly clashes with government troops in Sri Lanka's northeast created a new stream of refugees.
A suicide bomber targeted a top Sri Lankan military officer Monday as he traveled to work in southern Colombo, killing the general and three others, police and military sources said.
Sri Lankan troops are targeting Tamil Tiger rebel positions one day after a suicide bomber killed at least six people in the capital of Colombo.
Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga has laid the blame for Friday's assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgama directly on the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Sri Lankan police have detained 14 people with suspected connections to the Tamil Tigers after the nation's foreign minister was assassinated outside his home.
The assassination of Sri Lanka's foreign minister is a "grave setback to the peace process," a government spokesman said, adding it was "difficult to accept" a denial by Tamil Tiger rebels that they were responsible.
Indian Navy doctor, Commander Gopalan Parthasarathy, was spending a relaxing weekend at home when the phone rang.
It was a difficult task fraught with danger and uncertainty, but it had to be done and the assignment went to CNN's China correspondent Stan Grant, who had arrived in Colombo in the early morning hours of 29 December.
A fiery train-bus accident in Sri Lanka has killed at least 37 people and injured scores of others, according to police, rescue workers and hospital staff.
A four-month-old baby boy found alive in a pile of garbage after the tsunami struck Sri Lanka is being reunited with his parents on Wednesday.
Sri Lankan authorities say DNA results have confirmed the identity of a baby who was found alive in the rubble of the tsunami disaster.
High-ranking international officials have toured regions hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunamis to see firsthand the devastation that has prompted one of the world's biggest relief efforts.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
Aid is filtering through to parts of Sri Lanka, but thousands of people are still desperate for food and medical supplies, as many areas have not been reached by relief workers, CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
Ships unloaded thousands of tons of food at docks on Sumatra's east coast, but relief planners struggled to finds ways to get the supplies to the Indonesian Island's west coast and the 800,000 people who survived the disaster.
Here are a selection of eyewitness accounts from people who e-mailed us with their experiences of the devastation. Please note our message boards are now closed.
The number of dead in Indonesia has risen five-fold to 27,174, almost doubling the death toll from the massive underwater earthquake and the equally massive tsunami that followed it.
Authorities in Sri Lanka say a suspected female suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police station in the capital Colombo, killing herself and four officers.
Two sons of the late Colombo crime family's boss were indicted with 29 others on federal racketeering and other charges Tuesday in New York City.
The government cracked down on the $50-billion-a-year business of organized crime, and indictments brought to trial about half of the 50 biggest Mafia bosses (FORTUNE, November 10). Now six of the ...
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