The SLFEB said all Sri Lankans who leave the country for employment should get registered with the Bureau, which in turn would entitle them for a variety of benefits, including viable assistance in their hour of need.

According to the Air Force sources, few air sorties were carried out between 7.15 - 7.30 am targeting the LTTE camp. The sources said that the target has been registered by the defence intelligence authorities after thorough ground surveillance. The target was effectively acquired, the sources added.

The Government has decided to dispatch 20 tones of relief assistance to Myanmar and urged the public to come to the aid of the people affected by the current tragedy in that country.

The topic of his address will be 'Strategy towards empowering the rural economy in Sri Lanka'.

President Rajapaksa will be the first Sri Lankan Head of State and Sri Lankan statesman who has not previously held office in the Oxford Union to address it as a guest speaker. The last distinguished Sri Lankan to address the Union was former Foreign Minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar.

At approximately 2.15a.m., local time an under water explosion damaged and caused logistic vessel A-520(MV Invincible) to sink while moored at the Ashroff jetty in Trincomalee harbour, today (May 10).

Twelve innocent civilians were killed while 31 reported injured according to latest reports in the bomb explosion triggered by LTTE terrorists inside the "New City Cafe" hotel in Ampara town on Friday evening, May 09.

The explosion took place around 5.45 p.m and the victims who received injuries were rushed to the Ampara hospital, sources said.

The Olympic flame reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday (08), an emotional moment for China and the crowning of the Beijing Olympics torch relay that dogged by anti-Chinese protests, reports from Beijing said.

The climbers, all clad in red, lit the torch on the 8,848-meter (29,030-ft) peak at the end of a seven-hour climb with the Olympic flame protected in a lantern.

Anti-Chinese protesters caused serious disruption to some legs of the main torch relay on its journey around the world after the deadly March 14 riots in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and subsequent unrest in other areas of Tibet