The first Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has assured the IMF’s fullest cooperation for Sri Lanka’s efforts to restore debt sustainability.

Israel was warned by Egypt of potential violence three days before Hamas' deadly cross-border raid, a US congressional panel chairman has said.

While calling for assistance in facilitating the return of Israelis, including tourists and employees in Sri Lanka to Israel, the President had directed police to provide necessary security to the Israelis within Sri Lanka, the President's Media Division (PMD) said

Israel’s defense minister said the authorities would block deliveries of food, water and fuel into the already blockaded enclave. A spokesman for Hamas’s military wing threatened to execute a hostage each time an Israeli airstrike hits Gazans in their homes.

A "significant number" of Israeli civilians and soldiers are being held hostage by Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military says.

A London court has thrown out a 145m euros (£126m) legal case brought by a former lover of the ex-king of Spain.

Operations have commenced to rescue a group of people who were trapped in a Sri Lanka Transport Board bus, after a tree fell on to the bus near the Liberty Roundabout along Duplication Road, Colpetty.

At least 21 people including two children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near the Italian city of Venice and caught fire, officials say.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his leadership position in a historic vote on Tuesday after a far-right revolt over his reliance on Democrats to pass funding to avert a government shutdown.