They were the iconic images of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami from Sri Lanka — the twisted hulks of eight carriages and a locomotive swept aside and tossed around like matchboxes by the killer waves. The ...

Kushil Gunasekera, founder of Foundation of Goodness charity that helps tsunami victims in Seenigama village, poses for a photograph at the high-ground temple that saved hundreds of lives during the ...

In 2004, a tsunami caused unprecedented damage and destruction in the Indian Ocean region. For Sri Lanka, the second-most affected country, with over thirtythousand deaths and five-hundred-thousand ...

Sri Lanka's tourism industry will recover faster than that of other tsunami-hit countries in Asia because the island nation has taken quick steps to revive the sector, the World Tourism Organization ...

Ever so slowly, life inches closer to normal in tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka. That's not always a good thing. Civil war raged in the island nation until a cease-fire was brokered in 2002, and the 2004 ...

The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami ...

PERALIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lankan housewife D.W. Leelawathi can still picture the 2004 tsunami as if it were yesterday, but three years on she and thousands like her are finally back in homes ...

In Sri Lanka, UNHCR has completed its post-tsunami role as the coordinator of a nationwide transitional shelter effort after the target of more than 58,000 shelters built by over 100 NGOs was reached.

KURUKKAL MADAM, Sri Lanka — Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known ...