The Court of Appeal has dismissed, without taking it up for hearing, a writ petition filed by former State Minister Prasanna Ranaweera seeking an order to prevent his arrest in connection with the alleged illegal acquisition of state land under the jurisdiction of the...

A postcard written by one of the Titanic’s most famous survivors just days before it sank has sold for £300,000 ($399,000) at auction. In a note to the seller’s great-uncle dated April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamer: “She is...