Sri Lankan health authorities said on Friday that two more A/H1N1 flu cases were confirmed on Thursday, bringing the total number of A/H1N1 flu cases in the country to 55.
The Epidemiological Unit of the Ministry of Health said in its latest report that the new patients have arrived from Singapore [...]
A Nigerian government minister has expressed relief at the death of an Islamic sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf.
Yusuf’s body was shown to journalists on Thursday just hours after police said they had captured him.
Human rights campaigners alleged he had been executed, but police said on Friday that he died in a shoot-out following days of bloody [...]
Michael Schumacher could test this year’s Ferrari ahead of his return to Formula 1, BBC Sport understands.
Under F1 rules, drivers are not allowed to test current cars, but the F1 Teams’ Association (Fota) members have agreed to let Schumacher test for one day.
However, F1’s governing body, the FIA, must still sanction the decision.
The seven-time world [...]
Sri Lanka plans to raise $500 million from overseas investors to help rebuild the war-torn island after an International Monetary Fund loan shored up the nation’s finances.
“We will take a decision in the next few weeks,” Sri Lanka’s central bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said in an interview in Mumbai today. “We did an investor update [...]
Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Major General Daya Ratnayake yesterday said that several thousand LTTE cadres could be still among nearly 300,000 civilians accommodated at welfare centres in the north.
Addressing a press conference at the Information Department, Ratnayake said that once the police and the army had completed the ongoing [...]
In a new twist to LTTE politics in the post-Prabakaran era, new Tiger chief Selvarasa Pathmanathan known as “KP on Thursday claimed that the decision of the Tigers to give up armed struggle and take recourse to “political and diplomatic moves” was taken by Velupillai Prabakaran along with other commanders at Mullivaikkal in Mullathivu district [...]
Asserting his nationalist credentials Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told all countries ‘ eve n if I call them friends’, that he is nobody’s stooge. ‘I will never be’, he declared in ringing tones ‘…all countries must realise that even if I call them friends, I am nobody’s stooge and never will be. [...]
Sri Lanka would have got bilateral help if the International Monetary Fund did not cough up the cash, but the island now had an opportunity to ride on the endorsement by keeping to its targets, a top Indian official has said.
If IMF had not given some other friends on a bilateral basis would have met [...]
Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan has said he will retire from Test cricket next year. Murali, who is the highest wicket-taker in Tests with 770 wickets in 127 Tests, announced that the two-Test home series against West Indies in November 2010 would be his last.
Speaking at the end of the first ODI against Pakistan, in [...]
Ricky Ponting resisted the temptation to bowl in friendly conditions caused by a six-hour rain delay as Australia attempt to fight back from a 1-0 Ashes deficit in the third Test. Ponting won his first toss of the series and batted – a reverse of his costly decision here four years ago – and it [...]
Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 36 runs in Dambulla in a thriller where Pakistan’s lower order batsmen did things that the top order were supposed to do.
Eventually Pakistan was bundled out for 196 in 44.4 overs.
Earlier, Sri Lanka recovered from a top-order failure to post a competitive 232-9 in the first one-day international [...]
India’s High Commissioner (HC) to Sri Lanka (SL) , Alok Prasad had to leave SL even before his official term was over. It is reported that India’s Foreign Ministry is placed in a deep quandary, for there is no one to take over as the Indian HC to SL after Alok Prasad. The reason for [...]
Just days after crowning himself the LTTE leader post-Prabhakaran, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP expressed confidence that India would help Eelam Tamils achieve their aspirations for a separate homeland.
In an interview to the Deccan Chronicle from an undisclosed location in Europe, he also said MDMK general secretary Vaiko and Sri Lankan Tamil Protection Movement convenor P. [...]
A baby cut from the womb of her murdered mother in Massachusetts was found alive in New Hampshire, police said Wednesday night, and two people have been arrested in the woman’s killing.
Julie Corey, 35, and a male companion were found with the female newborn in Plymouth, N.H., Worcester Police said.
The child appeared to be in [...]
