Chaminda Vaas, who is considered to be the best fast bowler produced by Sri Lanka and presently the best bowling coach of the Sri Lankan national team, was seen trying his hand at television journalism after the third day of the second test match between Sri Lanka and South Africa. (Pic courtesy: BBC Sandeshaya )

UNP Chief Ministerial candidate for the Uva Provincial Council election Harin Fernando and his supporters were seen taking part in a religious event in Badulla yesterday.

Tamil groups staged a protest in Glasgow against Sri Lanka's inclusion in the Commonwealth Games 2014 just before its opening ceremony.

A public petition is now being signed in Colombo against racism to mark the 31st remembrance of the "Black July". 

Due to ongoing attacks in the Gaza strip, the international media will now have to change the symbols with which they present weather forecasts, especially when it comes to the Middle Eastern region.

While battles in the Gaza strip reached its peak yesterday, a Palestinian man sleeping inside a refrigerator to protect himself from shelling and areal bombing.

The first family of Sri Lanka posing for a selfie at a wedding of a family friend. The selfie has been posted on the Twitter account of Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa.

UNP Parliamentarian Ajith P Perera who led the parliamentary delegation to the Sapugaskanda oil refinery has nowe launched a house-to-house campaign in the District of Kalutara under the theme “Dorin Dora Charika”.

The group photograph of Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers in 1965 speaks volumes of the way the country's politics has "evolved" over the past four decades. Presently there are over 100 Ministers and deputy ministers in the government and only a handful of MPs in the ruling party do not hold ministerial positions. 

A Malaysian airliner reportedly with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

There are reports of bodies and burning wreckage on the ground. 

International sources suspect that the airliner was gunned down my a missile strike. The Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels have accused each other of shooting down the plane; both sides say they were not responsible.

(Pic courtesy: BBC)