Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a member of parliament since 2000, comes from a working-class family. He was the first from his ...

Great Britain’s Jodie Grinham has become the first pregnant Paralympic athlete to win a medal. Grinham’s history making win was announced on the official Instagram account for the Paralympics ...

40 candidates vying for votes in 1st presidential election since island nation declared bankruptcy in 2022 that led to ouster ...

Billions of dollars will be spent on tackling Australia's violence against women crisis. Funding will start flowing from July ...

COLOMBO, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe officially inaugurated "The Mall," a newly built duty-free shopping complex in the Colombo Port City area on Thursday, the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to arrive in Brunei today, marking the first-ever visit by an Indian PM to the Southeast Asian nation. The two-day visit aims to strengthen India's ties with ...

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ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Ahead of her 15th birthday, Diana Zalazar's body had gotten so big she could no longer squeeze into the dress she bought for her quinceañera to celebrate her passage ...

The aftermath of a NASA mission has produced over two million pounds of space debris, which has the potential to rain down as a century-long meteor shower. The extent of man-made creations is ...

We have reached September 1st, as hockey will be played this month. Outside of any PTOs that come to Long Island, the New York Islanders aren't likely to sign any players, but they are not ...

SINGAPORE - Applications for bankruptcy rose in the first half of 2024, as did the number of people declared eventually bankrupt. Recent Law Ministry (MinLaw) data shows that 2,334 people filed ...