Hopes have faded for the 366 other people unaccounted for after mudslides and floods triggered by the cyclone, which brought record rains across the island last week.

Sri Lankan authorities said they would need some £5 billion to rebuild homes, industries and roads destroyed by the cyclone, ...

Photo courtesy of Thilina Kaluthotage Sri Lanka is once again grappling with the devastating consequences of a natural disaster that, despite weeks of scientific forecasts, struck a nation ...

Pakistan has sent an urban search and rescue team to cyclone-hit Sri Lanka, where severe flooding and landslides triggered by ...

Sri Lankan actor and musician GK Reginold rides a motorised fishing boat through Colombo's suburbs, hoping to bring food and water to those in desperate need. Some of the families, Mr Reginold says, ...

Rescued persons included nationals of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Germany, Slovenia, United Kingdom, South Africa, Poland, Belarus, Iran, Australia and Pakistan.

Rescuers from India’s disaster response agency carried a baby away from a flood-hit home in the town of Puttalam, in western ...

Severe flooding that ravaged communities across Sri Lanka was visible from space, as seen in satellite imagery released by a ...

Wassana Suthi spent last week trying to keep a nursing home running as the floodwaters rose around her in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai, cutting the home off from outside help, bar one helicopter ...

Emergency crews are racing to reach survivors and recover more bodies Tuesday in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The death ...