(AP Photo/Priyan Malinda) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger train hit an elephant herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, killing six of the animals, an official said on Thursday.

Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board, in the form that it has been known till now, has been buried. Its epitaph was written by finance minister K N Balagopal in his budget speech on Friday, ...

Sri Lanka’s main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary on Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world’s first care home for destitute ...