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Sri Lankan woman proposes to girlfriend on radio

A Sri Lankan radio presenter proposed to her girlfriend on the radio, after Ireland legalised same-sex marriage in a landslide vote on May 23, 2015. Dil Wickremasinghe asked her girlfriend, Anne Marie O?Toole, to marry her live on national radio (in Ireland) in a simple but touching speech. The Newstalk presenter said: ?Now that we can and there?s nothing and no one that is standing in the way, will you marry me?? And the answer was, of course, a firm ?Yes? laden with uncontainable joy and lo

26 May, 2015

Probe continues on death of US pilot in Colombo

The police are investigating the death of a US Air Force pilot whose body was discovered from a hotel room in Colombo last week. Police Media Spokesperson ASP Ruwan Gunesekare told Xinhua that the victim’s body was discovered last?Thursday night from a room of a five star hotel where he had checked in a day earlier. Police officers conducting the investigations revealed that hotel employees contacted the police after they grew suspicious as several calls to the victim’s room remain unanswered.

25 May, 2015

Lanka welcomes Cannes award for refugee movie

Sri Lanka?s government on Monday hailed the awarding of Cannes? top prize to a film highlighting the plight of the Tamil minority during the island?s civil war, saying authorities were working to redress past injustices, the AFP news agency reported. ?Dheepan?, a French movie about a former Sri Lankan soldier?s struggles in a French ghetto after fleeing the separatist war, captured the Cannes Film Festival?s Palme d?Or prize on Sunday. Sri Lankan government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said the

25 May, 2015