China is to lend Sri Lanka about $200m (£133m) to build a second international airport in the south of the island.

An Indian charity has sent a team to northern Sri Lanka to provide 1,000 amputees with artificial limbs.

The United Nations says that nearly a hundred thousand ineternally displaced people are still accommodated in temporary camps.

UN reiterates its concern over lack of progress on agreed measures to address alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.

The dissolved parliament in Sri Lanka has been specially recalled and has voted to extend the state of emergency.

A rights group representing the families of disappeared military men accuses Sri Lanka government of victimising soldiers.

The Govt. accuses its former military chief Gen Fonseka of torturing army officers and soldiers while in office.

The Govt. accuses its former military chief Gen Fonseka of torturing army officers and soldiers while in office.

The Australian deputy prime minister, Julia Gillard, urges Sri Lanka to "rebuild and stabilise" to stop influx of migrants.

The government says it will abolish or reform executive presidency if elected with two thirds majority.

Gen Sarath Fonseka's wife says he will refuse to eat from Sunday to protest at being denied access to a telephone.

German police have arrested six men suspected of raising funds for the Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel group.

The election commission wants posters and giant cardboard cut-outs of candidates removed.

Supreme Court orders the police to restore appropriate security for Rauff Hakeem, the leader of the SLMC.

Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Indonesia end their protest after the intervention of immigration officials.

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Professor Harendra de Silva has been nominated for this year's British Medical Journal Group Lifetime Achievement Award.