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Colombo - Months after ending a 26-year civil war in Sri Lanka that claimed over 100,000 lives, fresh hopes have been raised about building ethnic unity, although scars rem...
Mohali, Dec 11 (PTI) Indian pacer S Sreesanth has been admitted in a private hospital here with swine flu symptoms but the doctors today assured that the cricketer is doing well.
Generation A By Douglas Coupland (Scribner; 297 pages; $24) The latest from Douglas Coupland, who forever will be remembered for a 1991 novel that coined a phrase ("Generation X"), is set in a near future that the author works hard to depict as both weird and...
A teacher at John Hersey High School directed a documentary detailing the images of war through the eyes of children who will have its Chicago premiere for the Wheeling High School freshmen class on Wednesday, Dec. 16 at Wheeling.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Most urban bookstores have a local writers section, though “local” can cover a vague, regional set of boundaries. That’s not the case at Metropolis Books: At the small, independent bookstore in the Old Bank District, local means, quite specifically, Downtown Los Angeles.
Family supports Camp AmeriKids
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - December 11, 2009) - Amsterdam, 10 December 2009 --- AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.'s ("AMG," EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") 45.7% owned affiliate, Timminco Limited ("Timminco"; TSX: TIM) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Bécancour Silicon Inc. has completed the $5.0 million convertible senior subordinated debt financing with AMG announced on ...
The Sarasota couple accused of swindling at least $14 million from investors in a Ponzi scheme is headed back to the United States to face criminal charges.
Indian paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is suffering from swine flu and will miss Saturday's second and final Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka.
I was impressed by the well-written obituary for J. Hutchison Lewis. It mentioned his service in World War II. He worked with Morse Code and was able to remember and imitate the sounds and sometimes entertained us (his women’s basketball players at Red Bank High School) with “messages.”
A top United Nations envoy asked Sri Lanka on Friday to release detained Tamil Tiger child soldiers and urged the authorities to re-unite them with their families.
STAFF REPORT Accused Sarasota Ponzi schemers John and Marian Morgan have been deported from Sri Lanka and were being escorted Friday by federal law-enforcement officials on a flight to Washington D.C. The Morgans had been held in a Sri Lankan prison since mid-August.
Family members questioned Maalika Jameels decision to visit Nebraska in December, but she was eager to reunite with her... (1 comment)
Just a few months ago, Sri Lanka's president and its army chief were strong allies, working closely together to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels and end the nation's 25-year civil war.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Political adversaries staked claims to Hyderabad after India gave in to demands for a new southern state, sparking a battle for control of a city where Microsoft Corp.
Frontier markets are what emerging markets were 10 years ago. Several mutual funds give investors the chance to enter these small, less-developed countries.
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