Shamla Yoosoof, an investment researcher from Colombo, left Sri Lanka with her three-year-old son and a jam-packed suitcase, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s top court on Thursday ordered the owners of a Singapore-flagged container ship that sank near its capital to pay $1 billion in compensation to the island nation’s ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called upon the Sri Lankan authorities to put an immediate end to what it called the government’s harassment of photojournalist Kanapathipillai ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --Sri Lanka's former president was arrested Friday for the alleged misuse of public funds, police said. Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capitol, while giving ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake paid a courtesy visit to an iconic Catholic shrine on Katchatheevu Island, the first by a head of state in five decades to the once civil war-plagued ...

Christians and other faith communities in Sri Lanka have paid tribute to Anglican Bishop Kenneth M. Fernando, commending him for defending human rights during the country's civil war and promoting ...

Sri Lanka's customs authorities arrested on Friday a woman and seized the largest haul of cocaine ever detected at the country's main international airport, an official said. The unnamed 38-year-old ...

Bottom trawlers from India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu have been encroaching Sri Lanka’s northern waters for years, carrying out destructive fishing practices that have caused serious depletion of ...