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These white monkeys are a color variant of the endangered purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus), also known as the purple-faced leaf monkey, found only in Sri Lanka. Purple-faced langurs ...
From a bird’s eye view Prasad’s paintings seem unfinished – the miniatures occupy only the sides of the canvas leaving vast expanses of white between drawings ... France at the UNESCO Centre by the ...
A rare albino elephant has been spotted roaming Sri Lanka's Ruhunu National Park, the first recorded sighting in the country. The pale-skinned pachyderm, thought to be around 11 years old, lives ...
Parliamentarians—so-called supreme legislators—wear white, the colour of peace and purity ... However, it seems unlikely that Sri Lanka’s hope of seeing an orderly, well-behaved parliament ...
A rare population of leucistic, or partially white, purple-faced langurs near Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest ... The preferential treatment of such rare color morphs by humans could have ...
Sheree Atcheson was born in Sri Lanka. At three weeks old she was adopted, along with her brother, by a family from Northern Ireland. They were raised in the rural town of Coalisland in County ...
A BuzzFeed News world editor faced backlash Sunday for taking a swipe at President Trump while tweeting an article about the attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter. "Suspect we’d be hearing a lot more ...
It's easy to observe that Sri Lanka's ICC World Cup campaign hasn't been up to the mark and now they face a buoyant Bangladesh, a team that has collected three points from two matches in Pool A ...
Amid fresh moves in the UN's Human Rights Council to hold Sri Lanka to account, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports on a rise in sinister abductions by anonymous squads in white vans.