Sri Lanka’s inflation slowed in August, giving the central bank room to cut interest rates to stoke an economic revival after the end of the island’s three- decade civil war.
Consumer prices in the capital, Colombo, rose 0.9 percent from a year earlier after gaining 1.1 percent in July, the statistics agency said on its Web [...]
It’s been six months since the Grammy weekend when Chris Brown and Rihanna got into a late-night fight that left Rihanna bruised and bloodied and her R&B star boyfriend surrendering to Los Angeles police.
Since then, Brown, 20, has pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced last week to five years’ probation.
And now, he is [...]
A Sri Lankan court sentenced a journalist who wrote articles critical of a military offensive against the Tamil Tigers to 20 years’ hard labor under anti-terrorism laws critics say are used to stifle dissent.
Colombo High Court Judge Deepali Wijesundera found J.S. Tissanayagam guilty on three charges of conspiracy and violating the Prevention of Terrorism Act [...]
A contestant on a Pakistani reality TV show drowned while performing a challenge for the program, a spokeswoman for the show’s sponsor said Sunday.
Pakistani contestant Saad Khan, 32, was swimming across a lake while wearing a 15-pound (7-kilogram) backpack when he called out for help and then disappeared underwater, according to Fareshte Aslam, information officer [...]
Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations
Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it [...]
On the surface, it seems like a fine idea; reproductive rights groups certainly think so. In July, the Ugandan government announced that, using cash from the U.N. Population Fund, it would distribute 100,000 female condoms in a bid to stop a resurgence of HIV/AIDS. Advocates cheered the initiative, saying it would give women more control [...]
The Internet could be described as something of a youthful beast. But even still, the very first domain name to be purchased and registered brings a tear to the eye of anyone that remembers when the Internet was only accessible via a 14.4k modem and an ISP that charged by the minute. Believe it or [...]
Michael Jackson accidentally took his own life by administering an overdose of anaesthetic on himself, his personal physician will reportedly claim.
Dr Conrad Murray and his legal team will allegedly defend themselves claiming the King of Pop topped up his own drip with powerful sedative Propofol.
Murray, who is at the centre of a manslaughter probe, previously [...]
Suffering periods that lasted up to 21 days and finding sex difficult, Lauren Williams knew that something was wrong.
The 28-year-old from Chingford, Essex, was stunned to discover she had been born with a rare medical condition, which left her with two vaginas, two wombs and two cervixes.
Following the shocking diagnosis, and after an operation to [...]
An increasing number of countries, including some in Asia, are now reporting Tamiflu resistant H1N1 virus. The worrying development, according to WHO, has seen 12 countries including China and Singapore. India has not reported the mutation in the virus so far.
The changes in the virus reported in samples are making these strains of swine flu [...]
Foreign Secretary Dr. Palitha Kohona is to take up the appointment as the Permanent Representative at the United Nations for Sri Lanka shortly. He returned from the UN to Sri Lanka on the invitation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and also served as the Head of the Peace Secretriat. The Daily News [...]
The most prominent Tamil parliamentary group in Sri Lanka says the party is prepared to help President Mahinda Rajapaksa to resolve the national issue.
R Sambanthan, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), stressed [...]
The police said that there was irrefutable evidence that many LTTE cadres, including hardcore operatives, continued to take refuge among civilians accommodated at welfare centres in the Vavuniya region.
The police top brass Friday (August 28) said that interrogation of suspects taken from welfare camps had led to a spate of recent detections in areas formerly [...]
With the announcement by the Ministry of Justice to re-impose the death penalty as a step towards bringing down the crime rate, shock waves are rippling around the prisons, where there are over 256 prisoners noosed in the death row.
The idea of hanging criminals was mooted from time to time and the [...]
