Sources: RTÉ
The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 132 people killed, 191 missing, 44,000 more displaced, and 15,000 houses destroyed. 2025-11-29
The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, increases to 56 people killed and 600 houses damaged. 2025-11-28
More than 40 people are killed, and 21 others are missing after landslides caused by heavy rains hit Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya. 2025-11-27
Eighteen people are killed and fourteen others are rescued after a landslide at Kiteezi Landfill, a rubbish dump in Kampala, Uganda. 2024-08-10
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile. 2022-09-2
Several opposition politicians are arrested in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said yesterday that the country is "bankrupt". 2022-07-6
Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority announces that it will take legal action against the owners of the Singaporean container ship "X-Press Pearl" for the marine pollution caused by the ship's fire off the coast of Colombo on May 20. The authority reports that plastic granules from spilled cargo had been washing up on the Sri Lankan coast since May 27. 2021-05-30
Three women are killed in a stampede in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during an US$8 cash handout at a businessman's warehouse. 2020-05-21
A series of explosions at churches and hotels in four cities in Sri Lanka, including the nation's commercial capital and largest city Colombo, kills at least 359 people and wounds around 500 others. ISIL has since claimed responsibility for the attacks. 2019-04-21
Riots break out in a prison in central Colombo, Sri Lanka, injuring 31 inmates and guards. 2012-01-25