The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held in Gold Coast after the Australian city beat off the challenge of Sri Lankan town Hambantota.

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2018 Commonwealths in Gold Coast

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa defends the conduct of the military during fighting at the end of the country’s protracted civil war.

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Sri Lanka defends military record

Welsh boxer Sean McGoldrick looks set to be awarded a Commonwealth gold medal following the disqualification of Sri Lankan fighter Manju Wanniarachchi.

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McGoldrick eyes Commonwealth gold

Sri Lankan pace bowler Lasith Malinga becomes the second player in as many days to take a World Cup hat-trick during a six-wicket haul against Kenya.

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Malinga takes World Cup hat-trick

Lives turned upside down by Sri Lankan floods

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Washed away

The Sri Lankan government says 200 detained former Tamil Tiger rebels have passed a university entrance exam while in prison.

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Sri Lankan detainees pass exams

The Sri Lankan cabinet abolishes the Tamil version of the country’s national anthem.

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Sri Lanka abolishes Tamil anthem

International rights groups join Tamil diaspora groups and the UN to call for a full investigation into possible Sri Lankan war crimes.

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Demand for Sri Lanka crimes probe

Demonstrators try to storm the British embassy in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo over Tamil protests which marred President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s UK visit.

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Protest hits Sri Lanka UK embassy

The Sri Lankan government again blocks BBC News from travelling to the northern city of Jaffna to attend public hearings of a commission looking into the civil war.

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Sri Lanka blocks BBC travel north

Sri Lankan media publish the faces of dozens of people accused of appearing in pornographic films in violation of anti-obscenity laws.

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Sri Lanka publishes ‘porn faces’

The Sri Lankan government is intensifying its struggle against an unlikely enemy but one which it says is very real – wheat.

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Sri Lanka declares war on wheat

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to appeal to the king of Saudi Arabia to revoke the death sentence on a Sri Lankan maid.

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S Lanka president in maid appeal

A Sri Lankan politician demands that the government return gold and jewels seized during the final stages of the war against Tamil Tiger rebels last year.

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Saudi Arabia suspends the recruitment of Sri Lankan workers following a row over an abused housemaid.

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Sri Lanka work recruitment halted