A man walks across train tracks, past a monument in memory of the people killed and effected by the December 2004 tsunami, in Paraliya, 90 km south of ColomboAndrew Caballero-Reynolds / Reuters They ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Despite the death and devastation the Dec. 26 tsunami wrought in Sri Lanka and other Indian Ocean nations, Church leaders say the catastrophe could boost the stalled peace process ...

Colombo: With a two minutes silence observed nationally, Sri Lanka on Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the South Asian Tsunami that had killed over 30,000 in the island nation. Sri Lanka marks ...

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 ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Churches across Sri Lanka lit 40,000 candles June 26 to remember the 40,000 lives that were snatched away six months earlier when tsunami waves pounded the island nation. The ...

GENEVA, Feb 4 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has outlined its role in post-tsunami Sri Lanka amid continuing efforts to distribute non-food relief items to the displaced and to finalise a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, October 25 (UNHCR) - Like so many other people in Sri Lanka, Mrs. A.L. Sulahaummah will never forget 26 December 2004, the day the tsunami struck, killing more than 200,000 people ...

Legendary England all-rounder Ian Botham (R), seen here during his visit to the Foundation of Goodness sports complex in Seenigama, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Colombo. Botham said Wednesday he ...

Colombo , Dec. 26: Sri Lanka is observing the 12th anniversary of the devastating tsunami which struck the island nation in 2004 killing more than 35,000 people and leaving many people homeless.

A retired Sri Lankan archbishop who served as the general secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conference (FABC) and on the board of directors of Radio Veritas has died at the age of 90.