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Two hundred bogus asylum seekers from Sri Lanka are reportedly stranded in West Africa, according to a BBC news report.
Katy Perry made a subtle dig at fellow pop superstar Beyonce during a recent interview with BBC Radio 1.
A US power company is planning to build a coal-fired power station using carbon capture technology at Grangemouth, BBC Scotland learns.
Director James Cameron tells the BBC why he's risking it all to dive to the deepest part of the ocean.
Women who have lost their husbands and sons in Sri Lanka’s decades-long conflict have been forced to turn to prostitution, say women’s rights activists. Geetha Lakmini of World Fisherfolk Solidarity Movement said over 85,000 women were widowed in the north and east after the war. “One village in Madhu area is infamous for prostitution because ...
The sports minister in Sri Lanka says that exclusive broadcasting rights of 2012 Olympics obtained by state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) will not be sold to private channel as reported by media. The Sunday Leader newspaper said the Carlton Sports Network (CSN), reportedly owned by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s family, has sought the broadcasting ...
BBC presenter Dr Helen Czerski investigates how tornadoes form in the mid-western state of Colorado, part of the area known as Tornado Alley.
Almost three years after the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka is still dogged by allegations of human rights violations. Amid fresh moves in the UN's Human Rights Council to hold Sri Lanka to account, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports on a rise ...
By Cheranka Mendis As you walk in to the children’s ward at the National Cancer Institute of Maharagama you cannot help but feel a lump in your throat, tears threaten to spill over and sobs have to be choked back. Turning towards you will be these little faces – eyes big as saucers, lips sometimes ...
Below are excerpts of a 38 page paper by Brian Senewiratne (MA. MD. FRCP.FRACP) of Brisbane, Australia titled UN Human Rights Council Meeting – Another Farce. Excerpts: “This is not a document for easy reading, nor is it meant to be. It is a reasonably comprehensive record of the abysmal record of the UN and the UN ...
Former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes has said that the United Nations did not succeed in rescuing the innocent Tamil civilians used by the LTTE as human shields. Mr. Holmes emphasized that the United Nations had no authority under whatever circumstances to forcibly interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign ...
Alister Curry from Peta and former science minister Lord Drayson gave BBC Radio 5 live both sides of the argument.
The director of a British documentary on last stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war has accused the West and the UN of failing to take any “effective action” to prevent alleged war crimes by the country’s security forces BBC Sandeshaya reports.
It is sad to leave Bush House - the home of the BBC World Service for almost 80 years. It is where Sandeshaya, Sinhala programme was broadcast until today, Saturday the 10th of March.
In May, 2003, I travelled around Iraq reporting on its oil industry. Before reaching Baghdad, I got in touch with Marie Colvin, who was there covering the war and its aftermath for the Sunday Times, where I worked from 1986 to 1993. She wrote back to say that she was staying at a hunt club in ...
As a new exhibition dedicated to Antarctic explorer Capt Lawrence Oates opens, the BBC examines the man who entered the history books with his final famous words.
It is sad to leave Bush House - the home of the BBC World Service for almost 80 years. It is where Sandeshaya, Sinhala programme was broadcast until today, Saturday the 10th of March.
Girls as young as seven have been sexually abused and sexual violence against women is on the increase in northern Sri Lanka, say health officials. According to a senior health official in Jaffna peninsula 32 incidents of child abuse and sexual abuse have been reported during the last two months. Dr S Sivaruban, the ...
Sri Lanka s human rights issue are causing huge divisions in the United Nations. The member st..
BBC: The International Cricket Council’s chief executives’ committee (CEC) has suggested that an associate or affiliate member such as Ireland could host a ICC World Twenty20 tournament. The CEC said non-Test-playing countries “should consider submitting a detailed proposition
The only Sri Lankan sportsperson to have qualified for London 2012 Olympics has called on the country’s authorities to plan ahead to get the best out of sportsmen and women. Niluka Karunaratne, the national badminton champion for the last ten years, told BBC Sandeshaya that otherwise Sri
A BBC Scotland investigation reveals how millions of pounds is being paid out in an abuse of the agricultural subsidy system.
Former BBC and ITV presenter Peter Rowell has been jailed for six years for sexually abusing girls.
The British Embassy in Colombo today monitored the return of a group of failed asylum seekers who had been deported from Britain. According to the Embassy, the British Deputy High Commission in Sri Lanka Robbie Bulloch monitored the return of 52 failed asylum seekers at the Katnayake airport. “I visited Colombo airport today to observe ...
Britain has questioned concerns raised by two charities which say that Sri Lankan Tamils deported from the UK are at danger of being tortured or raped. Another charter flight returning people to the island nation, including Tamil and Sinhala failed asylum-seekers, is due to leave on Tuesday. But Human Rights Watch and Freedom from Torture ...
Reporters Without Borders calls on all members of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, which began its 19th session yesterday, to pass a resolution condemning the Sri Lankan government’s violations of freedom of information and to demand an end to threats and violence against news media and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka. “For ...
Journalists have been allowed inside Japan's Fukushima plant for the first time since the tsunami that devastated the plant last year.
A teenager has admitted to killing a Sri Lankan shop worker on Merseyside, the BBC reported. Mahesh Wickramasingha, 30, a father of two suffered fatal stab wounds while working at Stanley News in Huyton on November 29. Sam Harrison, 19, of Salerno Drive, Huyton, appeared by video