Nationwide curfew in Lanka after communal violence

The Sri Lankan government on Monday enforced a countrywide curfew and blocked social media platforms to stop people inciting violence as communal violence spread to new areas in the island nation......

215 killed as blasts rock Sri Lanka on Easter

Seven persons had been arrested in connection with the blasts. IMAGE: The blasts have been described as one of the deadliest attacks in the country's history. Photograph: Dinuka......

'Nobody deserves this fate'

Lyvita Gomes, the Mumbai native who died after a hunger strike in an Illinois jail, is laid to rest, but questions remain. George Joseph reports in a three-part series. Hundreds of people turned......

Two blasts rock Nigerian churches on Christmas; 28 killed

At least 28 people were killed on Sunday in two powerful blasts that targeted churches in Nigeria during the Christmas services, amid a series of attacks by a radical Islamic sect in the country's......