A British tourist is to be deported from Sri Lanka because of a Buddha tattoo on her arm. Michelle Coleman…
A mass grave with the bodies of at least nine people has been uncovered in a family’s garden in Sri Lanka.
Prime minister David Cameron has become the first foreign leader to northern Sri Lanka and meet Tamil leaders since Sri Lankan independence in 1948.
The Commonwealth – that unique values-based association of now 53 member states, almost all of whom are former British colonies – is facing one of its periodic existential crises, which will require another significant reinvention.
Commonwealth chiefs are facing growing calls to censure Sri Lanka over continued human rights abuses and relocate a high-level summit due to take place in Colombo later this year.