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Sri Lanka

May 2024

  • Kusuma Barnett

    Other lives
    Kusuma Barnett obituary

    Other lives: Head of volunteering at the British Museum who helped to bring new life to its public involvement programmes
  • Family photo, from right to left Subatra Sudharsan, daughter Priyanka, son Priyan and Sudharsan Ithayachandran

    Family of man who died after being deported blame Home Office delays

    Appeal allowed Sudharsan Ithayachandran to return to UK to be with his family, but he died in Sri Lanka while awaiting visa
  • David Wilkie file photo<br>File photo dated 24-02-1975 of David Wilkie. British Olympic swimming champion David Wilkie has died at the age of 70. PA Photo. Issue date: Wednesday May 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SWIMMING Wilkie. Photo credit should read PA/PA Wire.

    David Wilkie obituary

    One of the greatest British swimmers who won gold in the 200m breaststroke at the Montreal Olympics in 1976

April 2024

  • A woman sits by the fireplace at meal time in a shanty in Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Break the cycle of debt and dependency that stunts developing countries’ growth

  • People gather around a car that had crashed into the spectators during a motor racing event in Sri Lanka.

    Seven killed after out-of-control rally car hits spectators in Sri Lanka

March 2024

  • A male Asian elephant with tusks stands in a road through jungle as a rickshaw skirts around it and others drivers wait for it to pass

    The age of extinction
    Death tolls mount as elephants and people compete for land in Sri Lanka

  • Trees against a starry sky with Milky Way.

    Star wars: Sri Lanka’s powerful astrologers split over auspicious dates

December 2023

  • Pink interior dappled with sunlight passing through its damaged roof, with wrecked wooden pews

    Previous Sri Lanka government accused of blocking investigation into Easter bombings

    The 2019 attacks killed 269 people, but investigators say search for answers obstructed under ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa

November 2023

  • General view inside the changing rooms of Sri Lanka before their World Cup match against England

    Sri Lanka suspended by ICC over ‘government interference’

  • Women harvesting organic tea with their hands in Simulbari (Simul Barie) Tea Garden plantation near Siliguri in the district of Darjeeling in West Bengal in India.

    Poor tea pickers pay the price for a British cuppa

October 2023

  • Marvin Hamilton with the ball at his feet

    ‘I’ve been so lucky’: Hamilton swaps Essex Alliance for Sri Lanka’s World Cup dream

    Marvin Hamilton tells John Duerden how he is preparing to face Yemen in Saudi Arabia instead of turning out in the 11th tier of English football
  • Priya and Nade Nadesalingam with their daughters Tharnicaa (right) and Kopika.

    ‘Fight for every other refugee’: Priya Nadesalingam on what Australia can learn from Biloela

    In her first memoir, Nadesalingam revisited painful memories to tell her family’s story. Now happily settled in Biloela, she’s urging the country to keep fighting
  • A doctor writing a prescription form for medication on his prescription pad for a patient

    My full name is my identity – immigrants shouldn’t have to change theirs to fit into Australia’s systems

    Minoli Wijetunga
    No one in Sri Lanka would ever call me by my lineage name, the anglicised system used in Australia forces me to be a Liyanamohottilage Wijetunga; unfortunately, that … isn’t me

September 2023

  • An undated file photo of Diego Garcia

    Tamil refugees on Diego Garcia win fight against forcible return to Sri Lanka

    British territory’s commissioner withdraws decision after supreme court challenge
  • Two men in a boat look at a spout of water erupting from ocean, caused by blast fishing.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Everything is destroyed’: dynamite use sends shockwaves through fishing industries

    Using explosives is illegal, wasteful and devastating to marine life and people’s livelihoods. Yet in Sri Lanka and around the world it’s thriving as a quick and easy route to a lucrative haul
  • Sri Lankan soldiers in St Sebastian's church in Negombo, after the bomb blast on Easter Sunday, 2019.

    TV review
    Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings review – startling and deeply disturbing viewing

    This chilling Dispatches documentary reports on the aftermath of 2019’s apparently random terrorist attack, and alleges unpalatable truths

August 2023

  • Single mother Anne Roshel holds her nine-month-old baby son who was underweight at birth. Keeping him well fed is a daily struggle.

    No milk, no eggs, small hope: fears rise for Sri Lanka’s malnourished children

    Close to half the crisis-hit country’s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell here of their struggle as Unicef warns of a blighted generation

July 2023

  • George Alagiah on the set of World News<br>Presenter and newsreader George Alagiah in the BBC World News studio, 01/07/2008 (Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News &amp; Current Affairs via Getty Images)

    George Alagiah obituary

  • Items from the Lombok treasure, looted by Dutch troops from a Balinese royal palace.

    Netherlands to return treasures looted from Indonesia and Sri Lanka in colonial era

June 2023

  • Ecuador says its $1.6bn deal will help pay for Galápagos Islands conservation.

    The age of extinction
    Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation?

    Agreements to reduce developing countries’ debt burden in exchange for spending on nature will be on the agenda at a finance summit in Paris this week
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