A Holocaust survivor named Dr. Hans Vischjager resides in Negombo, a seaside Catholic town in Buddhist Sri Lanka. As a child of Dutch Sephardic descent, he was hidden during the Holocaust.

COLOMBO, July 20 (Reuters) - Ranil Wickremesinghe, a lawyer who served as Sri Lanka's prime minister a record six times, has finally made it to the top job, securing the presidency after winning a ...

At least 21 people have been killed and many others injured when a bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims in central Sri Lanka careened ... in two hospitals. One survivor told a local journalist ...

Two decades after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, the boy known as “Baby 81” is now pursuing a dream of higher education at the age of 20. He was pulled from the mud as an infant ...