Sri Lankan Prez orders probe into Matale mass grave

Last Updated: Sunday, April 7, 2013, 15:32

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday named a committee to investigate a mass grave found in the central district of Matale last year, dating back to late 1980s.

Danny Boyle says he let down Ewan McGregor

Last Updated: Sunday, March 24, 2013, 08:51

Academy-award winning director Danny Boyle has admitted that he treated actor Ewan McGregor badly in the past.

Marxist party calls for Sri Lankan mass grave probe

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 22:33

The Marxist JVP has called for an investigation into a mass grave discovered in the central town of Matale in Sri Lanka, alleged to be of youth killed at the height of the country`s civil war.

‘Mass grave’ in SL town unearths human remains of over 60 people

Last Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 12:52

Human remains in what appears to be a mass grave that was unearthed last month in of Matale could be "the site of a crime", forensic investigators have said.

Arafat grave being dug up: Palestinian officials

Last Updated: Sunday, November 18, 2012, 09:05

Two Palestinian officials say workers with jackhammers are opening the concrete-encased grave of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Vietnam finds mass grave of communist soldiers

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 14:34

Farmers have found a grave containing the remains of at least 20 communist soldiers killed during the Vietnam War.

‘Mass grave with 25 bodies found near Damascus’

Last Updated: Friday, September 21, 2012, 18:52

The grave was dug out at al-Qadam, which has recently been a hotbed of armed confrontation between the government troops and the armed rebels.

Malawi: 60 Somalis, Ethiopians feared dead

Last Updated: Friday, June 22, 2012, 10:13

Reports indicated that the Somalis and Ethiopians had connived with local Malawians to ferry them from Tanzania to Malawi by boat.

Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu visit Mehdi Hassan`s grave in Karachi

Last Updated: Sunday, June 17, 2012, 09:54

Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu visited the grave of Pakistani ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan here to pay their respects.

Graves of Muslim soldiers desecrated in France

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 12:58

The graves of several Muslim soldiers in a cemetery in southeastern France were desecrated over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.

Whitney Houston’s grave site ‘protected by armed guards’

Last Updated: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 18:54

Whitney Houston’s burial site is now reportedly being protected by armed guards amidst fears that grave robbers would be after her jewellery and gold-lined coffin.