Foreign Ministry advises citizens to take into account rapidly deteriorating economic situation, fuel and food shortages as leaders flee

Foreign Ministry calls on citizens to avoid Colombo after thousands storm president's residence and office over economic crisis; 34 including 2 police officers hurt in scuffles

Gotabaya Rajapaksa said to have been escorted to safety as demonstrators protest unprecedented economic turmoil

Barter deal will allow sanctions-hit Tehran to avoid having to use up scarce hard currency to pay for imports of widely consumed staple amid debt valued at $251 million

Resort manager says government should try to attract tourists from Israel, Russia, and India as they are 'resilient to these kind of attacks and situations'

Muslim clerics refuse burial rites for 10 Islamic radicals killed during confrontation with security forces last week.

Niqabs, long unheard of in island nation, have become more popular in recent years, but unclear how measure would have thwarted bombings

President has named his successor, but head of police won't step down over intelligence failings ahead of the bombings that killed 253 people

'Our hearts are tested by the great destruction,' says Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, as country's churches shuttered amid fears of further jihadist attacks

Terror group says its men fought security forces, detonated explosives belts during battle that left 15 dead amid fallout from Easter bombings