After 14 years in hiding, when King Valagamba finally returned to reclaim his throne in Anuradhapura around 89 BCE, he paid ...

An explosion wakes me and I’m torn between being terrified and beating myself up. I’d been warned not to travel to Sri Lanka solo. And yet here I was in Negombo, having arrived the night ...

The temple agreed to transfer the elephant last November to Sri Lanka’s National Zoological Garden, where it has been receiving treatment and preparation for the airlift to Thailand on Sunday.