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 ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, October 25 (UNHCR) - Like so many other people in Sri Lanka, Mrs. A.L. Sulahaummah will never forget 26 December 2004, the day the tsunami struck, killing more than 200,000 people ...

At this time last year, most of us didn't know much about tsunamis. But that changed on Dec. 26, 2004, when a devastating tsunami ravaged most of the coast from Southeast Asia to East Africa, killing ...

Sri Lankan native Ananda Srilal “Lal” Liyanapathiranage never stopped finding ways to help people in his home country. After a tsunami killed tens of thousands in Indian Ocean coastal communities in ...

The Tides Will Decide', directed by Azim Rizal, has been nominated for Best Documentary in the Festival Filem Malaysia 34.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Two Sri Lankans accused of grabbing a gold chain from a woman caught in the 2004 tsunami before letting her be swept to her death have been sentenced to death for her murder, a ...

A report from the island nation of Sri Lanka about the recovery effort from the Dec. 26 tsunami in Asia. Seerithambi Rajendran remembers the tsunami like it happened yesterday. "I rushed home when the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Despite the death and devastation the Dec. 26 tsunami wrought in Sri Lanka and other Indian Ocean nations, Church leaders say the catastrophe could boost the stalled peace process ...

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 ...