spate of disasters from the worst blizzards in five decades earlier this year to last month's magnitud... The BOC added the post-quake i...

Militants have already seized three Turks and a Pakistani contractor, in a new spate of kidnappings ahead of the handover. Fighters loy...

extended the emergency powers for a month, and Kumaratunga said she wanted to hold direct talks with rebels in an effort to end the spate...