A television cameraman films the Iranian ship Iris Lavan docked at a port in Kochi, India, on March 7, 2026. (Sivaram Venkitasubramanian/NurPhoto via Getty Images). NEW DELHI — Two Iranian warships ...

Beloved Italian singer and actress Angela Luce has died at the age of 87. Luce died Feb. 20 in her hometown of Naples after battling heart failure, according to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero. Born ...

Sri Lanka began offloading 208 crew members from a second Iranian vessel a day after 87 people were killed and several others were still missing following a U.S. submarine strike on an Iranian warship ...

GALLE, Sri Lanka — A torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, whose navy said Wednesday it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people. The Iranian vessel ...

Pakistan will need a big win over already-eliminated Sri Lanka and some help from England to keep their semifinal hopes alive in the T20 World Cup when they play their final Super 8 match on Saturday.

Halle Berry channeled her long-suppressed anger at director Bryan Singer into her most recent role in the heist film Crime 101. The 59-year-old Oscar winner portrays an insurance broker who teams up ...

The three-day visit of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who repeatedly hailed Sri Lanka as a “success story” under the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility program, ...

IT IS ONE THING for a small island to suffer the worst economic crisis in its history, little more than a decade after the end of a protracted civil war. Then, just as it was getting back on its feet, ...

Sri Lanka’s Up Country is a landscape of forested peaks and rolling hills, their slopes striped with tea plantations and dotted with picket-fenced railway stations and colonial-era resorts. Sri ...

Visit the ancient city of Anuradhapura on a full moon day and the past feels anything but distant. Buddhist pilgrims dressed in white walk barefoot along dusty paths. Saffron-robed monks chant at dawn ...

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