Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yala National Park was one of the worst hit areas in Sri Lanka by the Boxing Day tsunami (Jack Lawes) It was like any other day ...

They were the iconic images of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami from Sri Lanka — the twisted hulks of eight carriages and a locomotive swept aside and tossed around like matchboxes by the killer waves. The ...

Kushil Gunasekera, founder of Foundation of Goodness charity that helps tsunami victims in Seenigama village, poses for a photograph at the high-ground temple that saved hundreds of lives during the ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 22 November 2005 In Sri Lanka, UNHCR ...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that this time of year is a period for reflection for many people around the world. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that this time of ...

Fifteen years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Sri Lanka’s government intends to keep expanding the island’s coastal green belt — the chain of mangrove swamps credited with limiting the damage and ...

The interior designer and his longtime partner, acclaimed photographer, Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing together in Sri Lanka when the disaster struck ...

SEENIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - When Kushil Gunasekera returned to Seenigama in Sri Lanka's Galle district days after it was wiped out by a massive tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, he got to work. Houses ...