The captain of a container ship that caught fire and partially sunk off the coast of Sri Lanka, causing one of the country’s worst environmental disasters, was arrested Monday before being ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka has received $2.5 million in the third interim payment for the impacts caused by the sinking of the X-Press Pearl cargo vessel off the country’s western coast 14 months ago.

Members of the Sri Lankan Navy remove plastic granules and other debris washed ashore from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which burned in the sea off Sri Lanka's Colombo ...

The fire-ravaged ship, MV X-Press Pearl, began sinking on June 2, heightening fears of an oil and chemical spill that would threaten nearby lagoons, marine life and birds.The vessel was laden with ...