A 63-year-old Filipino woman has been arrested for attempting to smuggle 6 kilograms and 180 grams of ‘kush’ into Sri Lanka through the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Katunayake.

Sri Lanka has earned international recognition after being named among the Top 50 Food Destinations around the World for 2026, according to the latest editorial ranking released by “Travel And Tour World (TTW).”

Yemen's Houthi movement fired missiles at Saudi ​Arabia after accusing the kingdom of bombing an airport under their control on Monday, breaking a four-year truce in the conflict between ‌the kingdom and the Iran-aligned group.

Two more prison guards have succumbed to their injuries while receiving treatment at the National Hospital in Colombo, raising the death toll from the violent clash at Negombo Prison to 31.

Oil prices settled up more than 9% on Monday at a one-month high after news ​that a United States' naval blockade due to begin on Tuesday...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said that the U.S. would ​take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, as he ‌warned that Washington would continue to hit the country hard.

One Indian crew ​member was killed and eight others were wounded when two Emirati oil tankers were struck by ‌Iranian cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday, in the latest escalation in the strategic waterway.

A few showers may occur in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-western provinces and in Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Galle and Matara districts, today (14), the Department of Meteorology said.

The Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen accused Saudi Arabia on Monday of launching airstrikes against the international airport in Sanaa, and vowed to retaliate, testing a truce in the long-running conflict between the kingdom and the Iran-aligned group.

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Colombo Municipal Council member Deepa Edirisinghe has resigned from her position.

The Colombo–Kankesanthurai intercity express train service, which was earlier restricted to four days a week, will resume normal operations from tomorrow (14), according to railway authorities.

The price of oil jumped more than 5% after President Donald Trump declared on social media Monday morning that the U.S. would be resume its blockade on Iran and be “reimbursed” for helping ships transit the Strait of Hormuz.

Sri Lanka has launched a programme aimed at eliminating rabies from the country by 2030, according to the Director General of the Department of Animal Production and Health, Dr. Sanjika Perera.

A fire has broken out at a coir mill in Nawagampura, Ampara.

President Donald Trump said on Monday (Jul 13) that the United States was reinstating a naval blockade on Iran and would be reimbursed 20 per cent on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran claimed it had closed the vital waterway.

Iran's top joint military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, has said Iran would not allow the United States to intervene in the management of the Strait of Hormuz.

Sri Lanka has recorded a decline of nearly 120,000 live births during the past decade up to 2025, according to data released by the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs.

A 29-year-old school teacher died in a motorcycle accident on the Kala Wewa–Ipalogama Road earlier today (13).