Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that disrupt ...

COLOMBO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will outline the government's revenue and policy goals in his first full-year budget on Monday, seeking to extend the ...

The first part of this article published last week briefly outlined the history of Sri Lanka’s national anthem being sung in Tamil. In this second and final part, the focus would be on the ...

“Sanjeewa Sudath Perera and two other persons filed a Petition dated February 23, 2016, in the Supreme Court challenging the decision to sing the National Anthem of Sri Lanka in Tamil at the ...

It isn’t long before we’re passing a succession of tiny stations painted candyfloss pink and brahmin blue, bringing to ... a much-loved travel stop. Sri Lanka produces more than 300 million ...

Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.

In an astonishing moment caught on camera, a humpback whale briefly scooped up a kayaker in its mouth before quickly spitting the man back out. Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father ...

Canadian hockey fans booed “The Star-Spangled Banner” — setting off a brawl-filled game that ended with a US win Saturday night. The game of the NHL-run 4 Nations Face-Off tournament could ...

“When I turned around, I felt on my face like a slimy texture; I saw colors like dark blue ... Humpback whales live throughout the world’s major oceans, according to the National Oceanic ...

"I could see colors like dark blue and white approaching me from behind, closing around me and pulling me under." Dell's video, posted by the AP, shows the whale leaping up, then disappearing ...

A baby humpback whale was adrift just offshore, in the waters off southeastern Brazil. It had died — and she wanted its brain. "It's like Alice in Wonderland," says Souza, the founder and ...