Sri Lankans pull together after tsunami hits
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Sri Lankans of all castes and creeds are pulling together to try to salvage what remains of their lives, following a series of tsunami waves that devastated coastlines across Asia.
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Representatives of Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tigers rebels, mortal enemies, are working together to help tsunami victims.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Thousands of frantic Sri  Lankans searched corpse-strewn rubble for relatives along the  Indian Ocean island's devastated coastline on Tuesday as the  nation's death toll from a deadly tsunami rose above 12,200.
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From Tamil Tiger rebels to Buddhist monks in saffron robes, Sri Lanka stopped to mourn on Friday as rescue workers struggled to clear bloated corpses of victims of the Indian Ocean island's worst natural disaster.
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People held candles and white roses on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, tearfully embracing as they grieved, in a poignant symbol of the mood which darkened New Year celebrations across the globe.
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Sri Lanka's truce brought back tourists but the tsunami has ended the revival, writes Sanjoy Majumder.
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Thousands of anguished Sri Lankans, weary from searching for relatives swept away in a tsunami that killed more than 10,200 people, said today cleaning up could take years.
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At last 150 people were killed after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Andaman islands in the Indian Ocean struck Sri Lanka on Sunday, district officials said.
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Wailing relatives gathered around dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed about 2,000 people.
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Members of Britain's Sri Lankan Muslim community mourn their losses as they gather to pray and raise aid for the country after the Asian quake.
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Fishermen cast their nets for the first time since the tsunami; teenagers start looking for jobs to support their families; men talk of moving away from the shoreline, others of returning.
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Inhabitants of war-torn northern Sri Lanka are having difficulty coming to terms with the new tragedy of the Asian tsunami, says the BBC's Frances Harrison.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels appeared to be willing to join the government in relief work for Tsunami victims as President Chandrika Kumaratunga said a war with them was &quot;remoter&quot; now.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami which battered Sri Lanka has opened up a window of opportunity for a renewal of dialogue between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels but has also exposed the tensions that exist between the two sides.
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DEVASTATION: Men walk by boats carried onto a main road in Galle after tidal waves hit the southern Sri Lankan coastline on Sunday.
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Relief begins arriving in communities devastated by the Asian tsunami, as the clean-up operation continues.
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Problems over the distribution of aid to Tamil survivors of the tsunami in Sri Lanka's devastated Ampara district have eased after a meeting between the government and local Tamil leaders, an official said.