First suspect in Sri Lanka cricket attack arrested
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistani police have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team, and determined that the assailants planned to take the athletes hostage, a senior official said Wednesday. Pervez Rathore, police chief in the c...
 1.4K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 86.0 Sri Lankan hospital bombing kills 49
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A mortar shell struck the only functioning medical facility in Sri Lanka's northern war zone this morning, killing 49 patients and bystanders and wounding more than 50 others, a government health official said. It was the se...
1.2K - May. 12, 2009; scored 395.0 Doctor estimates as many as 1,000 civilians killed in two days of shelling in Sri Lanka war zone
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Two days of shelling across Sri Lanka's northern war zone killed at least 430 ethnic Tamil civilians - and likely as many as 1,000 - a government doctor in the area said today. The United Nations branded the attacks a blood...
1.4K - May. 11, 2009; scored 914.0 Sri Lanka cricket team attacked in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan A team of heavily armed gunmen, some traveling in rickshaws, ambushed Sri Lanka s national cricket team Tuesday as it arrived for a match, killing six police guards and wounding seven players. The brazen attack heightened fears tha...
7.9K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 751.0 Pakistan arrests 'some suspects' after attack on cricket team
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Police detained several suspects in the attack on Sri Lanka s cricket team in Pakistan, but said today they had made no progress in tracking the group of gunmen that wounded seven players and killed six police guarding them. T...
0.8K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 86.0 Sri Lanka cricket team attacked in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) At least a dozen men attacked Sri Lanka s cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers today ahead of a match in Pakistan, wounding seven players and an assistant coach from Britain in a brazen assault on South Asia...
1.3K - Mar. 3, 2009; scored 864.0 Cinnamon Beef Stew
In this country, cinnamon makes its mark in sweets. But elsewhere in the world this spice once used in perfumes by the Romans is decidedly savory, showing up repeatedly in curries, stir-fries and grilled meats. Which makes cinnamon an excellent ingre...
2.9K - Feb. 11, 2009; scored 86.0 Female bomber kills 28 in Sri Lanka attack
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) A suspected rebel suicide bomber killed 20 soldiers and eight civilians when she blew herself up today at a facility where government forces were processing Sri Lankans fleeing the northern war zone, the military said. The b...
1.3K - Feb. 9, 2009; scored 1000.0 Gunmen kill anti-government editor in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Gunmen on a motorcycle Thursday shot and killed the editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper critical of the government, the second violent attack on media this week. Media rights groups have accused the government and its supporter...
2.9K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 949.0 Sri Lanka troops seize Tamil Tiger stronghold
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Government forces captured the Tamil Tigers de facto capital in northern Sri Lanka on Friday, dealing a devastating blow to the rebels quarter-century fight for an independent state, the president said. But in a sign the r...
4.5K - Jan. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Indonesian coral reefs heal from 2004 tsunami
BANGKOK, Thailand Southeast Asia s tsunami-ravaged coral reefs have bounced back with surprising speed, according to a study released Friday, four years after the deadly waves hit. The findings came as communities across the Indian Ocean remembered...
6.0K - Dec. 27, 2008; scored 111.0 | 
