For people in Sri Lanka and other nations devastated by the tsunami that struck on this day last year, anniversaries mean a lot. One month, three months, six months, a year. Each is important, ...

The 39-year-old, about to become the first Asian actor on the National Theatre stage to play Hamlet, grew up in the shadow of ...

Abeysekera also lost a friend in the 2004 tsunami. “There has always been this undertone in which life could be taken at any second,” he says. He still returns to Sri Lanka for a couple of months ...

I’ve crept into Sri Lanka under the cover of night. My new surrounds feel real only when I scan Uga Riva’s breakfast menu ...

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I am at Yala National Park in Sri Lanka, the second-largest national park in the country and one of the most visited, ...

The terrible death of 15 people when a bus plunged over a 1,000-foot cliff on the Ella-Wellawaya road in Uva province on the night of September 4 has shocked many Sri Lankans. Those killed included ...

Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candlelight vigil as they recognize the 20th anniversary of the natural disaster, at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa ...

Sri Lanka paused for two minutes of silence on Thursday, marking the 20th anniversary of the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, a catastrophic event that claimed more than 30,000 lives. The island nation holds ...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], December 26 (ANI): On the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka Marc-Andre Franche honoured the over 2,25,000 lives lost, ...

The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami ...

Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- marking the moment a deadly tsunami hit 20 years ago. Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen ...