COLOMBO (News1st) - Sri Lankan football has reached another historic milestone as Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) President Jaswar Umar has been unanimously elected as the Vice President of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) at the SAFF Executive Committee meeting held in Bhutan.Jasw...

COLOMBO (News 1st): “I think for me, as long as I'm alive, I will always advocate for the strays.” Sahana says this, crouched in the backseat of a car, crammed between teeming buckets of rice, fish, and chicken that weigh more than her. She runs a charity called ‘Purrs and Woofs SL,’ and m...

A research team captured the first images of the wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean. The Clipper Endeavor, which went down on 11 April 1952 following multiple-engine failure shortly after take-off, was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level ...

COLOMBO (News 1st); For most social media users, going viral usually involves entertaining dances, comedy sketches or celebrity gossip. But in Bangkok, an unlikely TikTok sensation is proving that sometimes the most valuable content is also the most practical.A TikTok livestream dedicated to helping...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Can you imagine a robotic arm digging around your guts? Well, two days ago, that became a reality. On Tuesday (14th July), AI-enabled surgery happened for the first time in Sri Lanka. Twice, in fact. The first consisted of a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) on a 50-year-...