

Executive Presidency would be abolished under a future government of UNP - opposition leader
A future government under the United National Party (UNP) would abolish the Executive Presidency and reinstate the 17th Amendment to the...


Europeans bombard Google with delete requests
Tech giant Google says it has removed over 170,000 links since a European high court ruling earlier this year required search engines to...


Student Protests: The difference between Hong Kong and Sri Lanka
The Sabaragamuwa University Students launched a picketing protest over an issue over the newly constructed hostel for female students...


China overtakes US as largest economy
According to a recent study conducted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China's economy has overtaken the United States (US) to...


Health workers report for work despite calls for strike
A majority of health workers in Liberia have turned up for work, despite the call for a strike amid the Ebola outbreak. The National...
10-year-old charged with criminal homicide
A 10-year-old boy charged with criminal homicide for murdering a 90-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, USA yesterday. According to...


Pistorius’s offer rejected as “Blood Money”
Athlete Oscar Pistorius offered a large cash sum to the parents of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after he killed her - but it was rejected...


Phelps suspended for DUI
Michael Phelps has been suspended for six months by USA Swimming, as well as banned from competing at the World Championships in Russia...


French writer becomes 111th Laureate for Literature
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer, Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked...


Sri Lanka signs the Minamata Convention
Dr. Palitha Kohona, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, signed the Minamata convention on Mercury...