Over 200,000 voters face journeys of between 20 km and 100 km to reach polling stations in Army-held areas.

Paramilitaries, military deserters and underworld thugs gear up

Why, having quietly backed the UNP at previous Parliamentary elections, are the Tigers now uninterested when the most powerful political office in the country is up for grabs?

US-India air force exercise underway * India’s first ‘Dalit’ President dies * Natwar Singh rejects UN charge * Washington friction over torture * UN calls for microfinance initiatives

Three million people are homeless, little aid has been pledged and even less has arrived.

Believing in safe sex, however, does not deter Indians in seeking sexual contentment, worldwide survey finds.

Rioting in high-immigration suburbs has left more than 6,000 cars burned, dozens of policemen injured and one civilian dead

Kidnappings are reported amid gun and grenade attacks, but there were fewer incidents than in the previous week.

‘Don’t worry, I know what I am doing. I am careful. I am trying to get at Sornam.’

Names of deceased voters and those who had immigrated abroad are still on the electoral register.

The UNP runs the risk of not making sufficient inroads into the Sinhala nationalist vote bank whilst alienating the Tamils.

We will act according to what the LTTE tells us. If they tell us to vote, we will vote. If they tell us not to, we will not'

‘People operate not by goodwill, but by interests. You must figure out who is really the power.’

A blind date, ‘east meets west’ catwalk and karaoke raise funds for a teaching centre in Vanni