It was a star-studded night at Number 10, Downing Street. Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were welcoming the winners of the 2006 Children’s Champions Awards – among them Surgeon Conal Austin, honoured for annually organising a team of specialists to ... 

Veteran Sinhala journalist Bandula Padmakumara, anchor of the well-known Swarnavahini morning programme Mul Pituwa (Front Page) will be the new Chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.
Why are some babies born small and others big? Do the genes of a baby's mother have any role to play in this scheme of things?
The mother's genes, in fact, do play a major role. Ground-breaking research carried out in Sri Lanka has resulted in the discovery of one of the genes which determines the weight of babies at birth.
Our destination was Chennai, formerly Madras. Chennai is India's fourth largest metropolitan city, located on the Coromandel coast of the Bay of Bengal. With an estimated population of 6.98 million (2006), it is the third largest commercial and industrial centre in India. ... 
KARACHI, Saturday (AFP) - Fierce gun battles between rival Pakistani political activists killed 27 people today in the worst violence since President Pervez Musharraf suspended the ...
Living in a town adjacent to Colombo is just like living in it. On that fateful Wednesday morning, it started thundering at about 5 a.m., and by eight o' clock the entire Colombo area was inundated as the heavy down pour began to lash the capital of this tiny island nation. 








