It is recorded that King Rajasinghe I, when he laid siege to the Portuguese fort at Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1558, had an army of 2200 elephants.

Then we have Renukanth Subramaniam, aka JiLsi founder of DarkMarket, born in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

He played his last Test match for Pakistan in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad.

Similarly, northern Sri Lanka is the main battleground for the long running conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Americans fear their markets being flooded by Chinese goods. Mexico, Brazil, Central Europe, Indonesia, and even Sri Lanka are worried about competition from lower wages.

I was in Sri Lanka, for example, three days after the tsunami, and I was standing on the beaches and it was absolutely clear that, in a matter of five minutes, a 30 foot wave could rise up and desecrate a people, a population and lives.

Several disgruntled Filipino Internet users pointed to the Pope s recent visit to Sri Lanka, where he was seen touching and blessing the hands of the faithful along the road.

And he goes, Last year, my mom passed away from breast cancer in Sri Lanka, because we couldn't afford proper treatment for her, and he said, This mustache is my tribute to my mom.

Read the rest of the entry to see why he decides to stop buying DVDs from Kuwait.

An assessment of water resource management in agriculture was conducted in 2007 by the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka to see if the world had sufficient water to provide food for its growing population.

I was in Sri Lanka, for example, three days after the tsunami, and I was standing on the beaches and it was absolutely clear that, in a matter of five minutes, a 30 foot wave could rise up and desecrate a people, a population and lives.