Hoosier Jim Morris was serving as the head of the World Food Programme, which had been providing aid to the island of Sri ...

While excited to encounter Sri Lanka’s incredible wildlife, the framing of the tsunami and the recollections of what happened in 2004 were deeply moving. The expansive site, covering almost ...

Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- marking the moment a deadly tsunami hit 20 years ago. Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen ...

A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami according to EM-DAT, a recognised global disaster database. Of those, 35,399 were in Sri Lanka. Sarani Sudeshika, 36, a baker whose mother ...

Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen Express became a symbol of the biggest natural disaster to hit the South Asian nation in living memory, when the train was struck by the giant waves of December 26, 2004 ...