TEN people were killed and 86 wounded yesterday in a suicide bomb attack on a bus carrying riot police in the Sri Lankan capital Columbo.

A bomb explosion on a bus wounded at least 14 people near the Sri Lankan capital today.

Armed police guarded the office of Dutch aid group ZOA Refugee Care in the Sri Lankan capital today after angry Buddhist monks stormed into the building and accused the group of aiding Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said.

A prominent Tamil politician was assassinated in the Sri Lankan capital today and naval attack on two Tamil Tiger boats left six rebels dead, officials said - acts appearing to draw the South Asian country closer to full-scale war.

The Tamil Tiger rebels said today that the Sri Lankan government has failed to honour a pledge made at peace talks in Geneva earlier this year to disarm paramilitary groups.

The World Health Organisation and health ministers from 11 Asian nations today agreed on measures to improve their joint response if a region-wide natural disaster occurs, following last year’s devastating tsunami.

FROM Japan to Jamaica, millions marked World Environment Day yesterday by planting trees or staging rallies as the UN urged better “green” city planning to cope with runaway urban growth.

Stunned by the devastation wrought by the Asian tsunami, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan toured a Sri Lankan town today where hundreds of shoppers at an outdoor weekly market were swept to their deaths.

A teenager left orphaned and homeless after tsunamis swept the Sri Lankan coast was gang raped in the hours that followed, a top official said today.

GOAL is dispatching engineers, doctors and nurses to stricken regions after the devastation of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Massive waves triggered by earthquakes crashed into villages along a wide stretch of Sri Lankan coast today, killing more than 2,100 people and displacing a million others, the prime minister’s office said.

Five people fought for their lives in Sri Lanka on Sunday a day after a grenade attack killed two concertgoers and wounded 17 at a controversial show featuring top Indian film stars in the Sri Lankan capital, police said.

A grenade exploded at a concert featuring leading Indian movie stars in the Sri Lankan capital today, a day before the anniversary of the death of a leading Buddhist cleric, the military said.

A TAMIL TIGER suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police station yesterday, killing herself and four officers in the first such attack in the Sri Lankan capital since the rebels signed a ceasefire two years ago, police said.

A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel detonated explosives at a police station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo today, killing herself and four others, police said.

Police found an explosives-packed suicide jacket of the type used by Tamil Tiger rebels and two powerful land mines in a fertiliser bag abandoned in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo today, officers said.

A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber has killed himself and at least four others after detonating an explosion at a checkpoint in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, today.

Women rebels attacked a Sri Lankan police camp before dawn today, killing 16 policemen, two civilians and wounding 18 others.

A Norwegian peace envoy has arrived in the Sri Lankan capital to renew efforts to resume peace talks between the government and Tamil Tigers to end the country's protracted civil war.