Tsunami & tectonics

Sri Lanka has been a friend and democratic partner of the United States since gaining independence in 1948 and has supported U.S. military operations overseas such as during the first Gulf War. Commercial contacts go back to 1787, when New England sailors first anchored in Sri Lankas harbors to engage in trade.

TOKYO----Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today it has revised its consolidated earnings forecast for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2011 from its previous forecast announced April 30, 2010.

TOKYO----Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today its financial results for the first quarter ending June 30, 2010, of the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2011 . Consolidated Financial Results Net sales: 778.9 billion yen Operating income: 51.5 billion yen Income before income taxes: 46.7 billion yen Net income attributable to Mitsubishi Electric Corp.: 26.2 billion yen

THE new top cop in the Macedon Ranges comes with three decades of experience.

Much like the proverbial bus, you wait ages for an Alice In Chains gig and then you get two in quick succession.

Key facts, figures and dates

Key facts, figures and dates.

Senior resident representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to China, Il Houng Lee, has said the Chinese economy was fundamentally "still very robust" and the IMF has maintained its projection of China's economic growth in 2010 at 10.5 percent.

Thousands of people around the world have died in train wrecks caused by natural disasters. In 2004, the tsunami in Southeast Asia derailed a Sri Lankan train, killing 1,700 people. But with modern advances, these tragedies can be avoided - and a Tel Aviv University researcher, working in collaboration with teams from seven countries, is leading the way. Prof. Lev V...

Thousands of people around the world have died in train wrecks caused by natural disasters. In 2004, the tsunami in Southeast Asia derailed a Sri Lankan train, killing 1,700 people. But with modern advances, these tragedies can be avoided and a Tel Aviv University researcher, working in collaboration with teams from seven countries, is leading the way.Prof. Lev V. Eppelbaum of Tel Aviv ...

Follow Israel news on and . Tel Aviv University researchers are corroborating with colleagues from six countries to develop a high-tech early-warning system aimed at preventing train wrecks and keeping terror off track.

Tel Aviv University researchers are corroborating with colleagues from six other countries to develop a high-tech early-warning system aimed at preventing train wrecks and keeping terror off track.

Speech by Former Indian Finance and External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, MP at the 13th Dudley Senanayake Memorial Oration - Globalization and us organized by the Dudley Senanayake Foundation at BCIS auditorium Colombo on July 22.

Researchers are collecting high-tech sensing data from satellites, airplanes, magnetic and soil sensors, and unmanned aircraft to devise a solution that will provide a reliable early-warning system for train operators.

(AP) -- Citigroup Inc. said Monday that its iPhone banking program has been saving customer account information in hidden files on users' smart phones and computers.

The founder of a website which published tens of thousands of leaked military files about the war in Afghanistan said Monday they showed that the "course of the war needs to change".

Thousands of people around the world have died in train wrecks caused by natural disasters. In 2004, the tsunami in Southeast Asia derailed a Sri Lankan train, killing 1,700 people. But with modern advances, these tragedies can be avoided and a Tel Aviv University researcher, working in collaboration with teams from seven countries, is leading the way.

Source: AlertNet Haiti's government and donors are now shifting their main focus from emergency work to reconstruction, but they face many challenges in rebuilding the Caribbean nation more than six months after the ...

PHUKET: As some readers will already be aware, the 2010 National Census is underway in Phuket, which is the first Thai province where this important data is being collected. [See 'First Person' in the...

A strong quake has occurred in the Asia-Pacific region but there is no tsunami alert, experts say.