The allegations against beleagured US hedge fund Galleon Group got wilder today when it emerged that victims of attacks by Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers say the company’s founder helped fund the terror group’s “crimes against humanity”
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New UN reports claim that more than 20,000 Tamil civilians may have been killed by the Sri Lankan army - more than three times the official figure... more
He transformed a small band of poorly armed rebels into one of the world’s most sophisticated and ruthless insurgencies and then made a string of miscalculations that led his Tamil Tigers to total defeat... more
A thousand people were killed when government troops launched a raid on the last sliver of land controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka... more
Dozens of Sri Lankan students are ready to join the Parliament Square hunger strike if the original protester is taken to hospital, the Evening Standard has learned... more
Will Self reports on the third day of protests by British Tamils inflamed by the military actions of a Sri Lankan government intent on extirpating the last of the Tamil Tiger fighters ... more
A United Nations human rights expert warned of a "bloodbath" in Sri Lanka unless government and Tamil Tiger forces stop fighting long enough to let civilians flee... more
A Tamil man from London burned himself to death outside the United Nations building in Geneva in protest at his people's treatment in Sri Lanka ... more
More than 300 people have been injured and scores more are feared to have been killed by artillery shells fired into a region of Sri Lankan designated a "safe zone" by the government... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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