Accidents cause severe congestion on Southern Expressway

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on ‘war crimes’ by colleagues

Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan. Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children. “They handcuffed a young boy and shot him,” recalled one veteran who served with the SAS in Afghanistan.?”He was clearly a child,

12 May, 2025

Mother seen protecting baby in Kotmale bus crash dies

A mother seen protecting her baby under the rubble of the bus involved in the Kotmale accident, has died. Video footage showed the woman holding the baby while a large portion of the bus was on her body. Attempts were made to cut and lift the destroyed bus from her body while people involved in the rescue attempts gave her water and comforted her and her baby. NewsFirst reported that the 9-month old child was recovering in hospital but the child’s 45-year-old mother succumbed to her injuries.

12 May, 2025

Artificial intelligence to monitor bus drivers in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka will use artificial intelligence to monitor bus drivers and make seat belts mandatory on public transport, a government minister said on Wednesday (May 14), after the country’s worst bus crash in two decades killed 23 people. The South Asian nation, which records an average of 3,000 road fatalities annually, has some of the most dangerous roads in the world. Buses are to be equipped with driver monitoring systems from next year, while seat belts will become compulsory on public trans

14 May, 2025