Colombo’s first drive-in open-air musical concert

India pays tributes to ex-president

Indian Children pay tribute to former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who is well known as the father of India’s missile program, in Kolkata, India. Kalam, who was India’s 11th president from 2002 to 2007, died of cardiac arrest during a lecture at a management institute in Meghalaya’s capital Shillong at the age of 83 late Monday evening. (Xinhua/Tumpa Mondal)

29 Jul, 2015

Polls violence hits Colombo

Family members of the victims of the Kotahena shooting incident in tears at the Colombo National Hospital.

31 Jul, 2015

Israel fights largest forest fire this year

An aircraft drops fire retardant to quench the hotspots caused by a conflagration in the forest near the Beit Shemesh area, about 30 km east of Jerusalem, on July 24, 2015. More than 150 firefighters and 13 aircraft have been mobilized to fight an extensive forest fire which broke out Friday afternoon in a mountainous area in central Israel. The blaze, the largest in Israel this year, started in a forest near the Beit Shemesh area, about 30 km east of Jerusalem, according to firefighting authori

25 Jul, 2015