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By Telegraph staff and agencies Chris Tremlett's Test best helped to reduce Sri Lanka to 177 for nine - but England may still run out of time for a victory push after two drastically rain-shortened days at the Rose Bowl. Tremlett marked his return to ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's main minority Tamil political group on Friday accused army troops of assaulting its lawmakers and breaking up a party meeting on the northern peninsula of Jaffna. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said troops stormed their venue ...

June 17, St. Petersburg: Chinese President Hu Jintao and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa met today and discussed ways to expand the already strong bilateral ties between the two countries in all directions. The two leaders held discussions ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka has offered its attack helicopters and transport aircraft for UN peacekeeping operations, two years after the end of the island's civil war, an air force spokesman said Friday. The Sri Lankan air force was ready to deploy its ...

The University of Alberta's embattled dean of medicine has resigned from his position as department head, one week after giving a convocation speech students said too closely mirrored that of a fellow academic.

Saying it wants to prevent abuse of the system, the federal government is moving to eliminate individual and private growers of medicinal marijuana.

Sheila Dockerty found out by mass e-mail that she had been replaced while on medical leave for depression. Her office, if she had gone back to a lesser position at the hospice where she was once executive director, would have been in the basement.

The 13th annual Safeway Father's day Walk/Run for prostate cancer takes place this Sunday at the Burnaby Lake Rowing Pavilion.