Its former president and his family were accused of siphoning off billions of dollars during his decade in power  

  Sri Lanka's foreign exchange reserves have fallen by a third from their peak in late 2014 to $6.2 billion...

  Even so, other Sri Lankan leaders have pledged to emulate Singapore in the past with little success.

  A change in regime in Sri Lanka blunted Chinese influence.

US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Sri Lanka's top Tamil leaders on Sunday 

Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it was seeking a delay of several months in the release of a U.N. report...

Pope Francis tours Sri Lanka and the Philippines on a week-long tour.

Floods and landslides have caused major damage in two thirds of Sri Lanka as severe weather hits.   

  Ten years after the deadliest tsunami on record wrought destruction across the Indian Ocean, creeping complacency is undermining a hi-tech...

A Sri Lankan village ravaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami ten years ago looks toward a brighter future.

All hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by...

 A landslide buried more than 140 houses in hilly south-central Sri Lanka on Wednesday after days of heavy rain, killing at least...

On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.15 quake off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province triggered an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed...