The remains of former Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge being exhumed under heavy police protection at the Borella Cemetery. (Pic: Lankadeepa)

Thousands of Tamil people across the northern province yesterday heeded a call by the Tamil People's Congress led by Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran, to protest against the government.

President Maithripala Sirisena attended a High-level Meeting on Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Control, held yesterday (Sep. 22) in New York in line with the 71st UNGA.

President Maithripala Sirisena met the US President Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama at the dinner hosted by the US President for the Heads of States at the 71st United Nations General Assembly. This will be the final UNGA for Barack Obama as US President.

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games were brought to a close inside a packed Maracana Stadium on Sunday evening.

Singers, dancers and fireworks lit up the iconic stadium before tributes were paid to Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, who died on Saturday.

Sir Philip Craven, International Paralympic Committee president, said the movement was "united in grief".

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People in Pussellawa today protested against the police following the suicide of an inmate in the cell of the police station after his arrest last night.

Pic: Ranjith Rajapaksha

The Colombo International Book Fair 2016 opened yesterday. By mid-afternoon, massive crowds were already inside and the car park was full. One person's advice was to use public transport when visiting the book fair, especially on holidays. Pic: Pradeep Chandana Gunarathne

Abdellatif Baka (centre) of Algeria shows off his gold medal at Rio Paralympics T13 1500m race for the visually impaired athletes alongside silver medalist Tamiru Demisse (left) of Ethiopia and Henry Kirwa (right) of Kenya. They and the fourth placed Fouad Baka were all faster than the Olympic gold medalist in men's 1500m race, USA's Matthew Centrowicz. Fouad is the brother of Abdellatif. (Pic: Getty)

Sri Lanka faced Australia at the second T20 International yesterday. Glenn Maxwell once again took the game from Sri Lanka with almost a single handed batting display. However, according to this placard, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga would have wanted to take credit for the game as well. "Maxwell did not finish three fourths of the match. I did - Chandrika" the placard says, in clear reference to her claim that she finished three fourths of the war.

TM Dilshan ended his T20 International bowling career taking a wicket off his last ball against Australia. Better known as an explosive batsman, he scored just one run in his last innings at the R Premadasa Stadium. Pic: AFP