COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is hoping its love of cricket, the country's most popular game, will help rehabilitate children caught up in the island's bloody civil war with Tamil Tiger separatists. Many Sri Lankan children have known little but war, which raged for 25 years before ending with a final push by government forces last May. Sri Lankan ...

Judges presiding over the court-martial of Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate indefinitely postponed a hearing into one allegation against him Wednesday, a defense attorney said, but proceedings will continue on another charge. Sarath Fonseka, who as army chief led Sri Lanka to victory in its ...

Sri Lanka's hotel owners are racing to refurbish and add thousands more rooms as foreign holidaymakers pour into the country after the end of nearly four decades of ethnic bloodshed. Leading hotel groups plan to spend millions of dollars on new decor and facilities for the influx of tourists drawn to the plentiful sunshine, beaches and tropical wildlife on ...