Kushil Gunasekera, founder of Foundation of Goodness charity that helps tsunami victims in Seenigama village, poses for a photograph at the high-ground temple that saved hundreds of lives during the ...

Former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Wednesday paid tribute to Australian great Shane Warne, saying the spinner found a place in the hearts of the island nation's fans for coming to the ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Steve Matthews of the relief organization World Vision. Morning Edition talked with him last year, just after the deadly tsunami struck Sri Lanka. Matthews has returned to the ...

Fifteen years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Sri Lanka’s government intends to keep expanding the island’s coastal green belt — the chain of mangrove swamps credited with limiting the damage and ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 4 -- Two men who snatched a gold chain from a woman struggling in the waves of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami will be tried for murder, Sri Lanka's solicitor general said ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Two Sri Lankans accused of grabbing a gold chain from a woman caught in the 2004 tsunami before letting her be swept to her death have been sentenced to death for her murder, a ...

One of the tourism industry’s biggest handicaps is its vulnerability to changes in the immediate environment. It is among the first to get affected, in the incidence of an adverse event, but among the ...

They were the iconic images of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami from Sri Lanka — the twisted hulks of eight carriages and a locomotive swept aside and tossed around like matchboxes by the killer waves. The ...

SEENIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - When Kushil Gunasekera returned to Seenigama in Sri Lanka's Galle district days after it was wiped out by a massive tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, he got to work. Houses ...