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The Sri Lankan government says people living in special camps since the end of the conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels will be free to leave next month.

The camps were set up in the north for Tamils fleeing the final stages of the civil war - which ended in May - and still house more than 130,000 people. An aide to the president also confirmed a pledge to close the facilities.

Sri Lankadrew strong international criticism for holding people in the camps against their will.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is seen here admiring a photo of former President Ranasinghe Premadasa taken by presidential photographer Sudath Silva at his photography exhibition held at the Colombo Art Gallery this afternoon.

Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana

General Sarath Fonseka is not the only option for the Common Opposition Candidate, UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayaka told Ada Derana today. He added that they have alternatives to the General and if the Government announces the elections the UNF is in a position to nominate even seven or eight Common candidates.

The JVP says it is not apprehensive about being part of the same Cabinet as its b te noire, the Tamil National Alliance, dubbed in Parliament as the mouthpiece of the LTTE, in the event of a caretaker government being formed with UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister.

The latest debate, MR (Mahinda Rajapakse) or SF (Sarath Fonseka)-SS (Sarath Silva) appearing to be out of the ring, at least at the moment. There is one man, a most important man, who has already won, certainly and obviously not the Presidency. RW (Ranil Wickramasinghe).

Ranil Wickremesinghe might like `Mohini` give the Common Candidate over to JVP leader Somawansa Amerasinghe, NFF leader Wimal Weerawansa said. He claimed that the UNP leader Ranil Wickremasighe has got the wind that if the Common Candidate is put forward in a third party there is a chance for him.

A group of new lions are to be brought from Armenia and China to Sri Lanka, as the current Lions in the Dehiwala Zoo are to be transported to the Hambanthota Safari park when it`s completed, Duminda Jayaratne, Director General of the Zoo told Daily Mirror Online.

He further added that there was an excess of Lions in the Dehiwala Zoo at the moment.

New LTTE leadership`s grand idea of a Transnational Eelam Government suffered an inglorious defeat when 90 percent of the Tamil diaspora showed its contempt by abstaining from voting for the transnational government.

The LTTE leader Nediyavan, who succeeded K P as head of the terrorist outfit suffered a humiliating setback when Tamils in Norway rejected his leadership on Sunday.

Norway based LTTE leader decided to hold the first phase of Eelam Transnational election in Norway itself with the strategy of obtaining a resounding victory to force the sympathetic Oslo regime to recognize the Transnational Eelam Government. But only 2667 Tamils out of a total of 27,000 Tamils in Norwayexercised their franchise.

Qualified nations for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa:

AFRICA
Cameroon
Nigeria
Algeria *
Ghana
C te d`Ivoire
South Africa (host nation)

ASIA
Japan
Australia
South Korea
North Korea

EUROPE
Netherlands
England
Spain
Germany
Denmark
Serbia
Italy
Switzerland
Slovakia

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General Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka (born 18 December 1950) (known as Sarath Fonseka) RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, SLSR is a former Sri Lanka Army officer and the former Chief of Defence Staff of Sri Lanka. As Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Fonseka played an instrumental role in ending the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009. Born to Peter and Piyawathie Fonseka of Ambalangoda. He had his education at Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda (1958-1965) and Ananda College,Colombo (1966-1969), is a sportsman who has participated in swimming and water polo, representing defense services and the country.

Nov 18, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa turns 64 today, a day ahead of the 4th anniversary of his election to the Executive Presidency.

Born in 1945, Rajapaksa was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1970, and served as prime minister from April 6, 2004 until his victory in the 2005 Presidential election. He was sworn in as the 6th Executive President for a six-year term on Nov 19, 2005.

Several religious events are planned to celebrate President`s birthday and invoke blessings to him.

Several areas in Colombo and Kandy and its suburbs took the brunt of the heavy rains that fell last night flooding roads and houses and severely inconvinencing residents and commuters alike. Assistant Director at the Disaster Management Centers Early Warning Dept. Pradeep Kodipilli however said that by this time much of the rain had receded.



Speaking to Daily Mirror online Pradeep Kodipilli said that last nights rain had severely affected the areas of Maligawatta, Maradana, Fort, Dehiwala and Maharagama as well as the Akurana town in Kandy and its suburbs and had caused disruption to the lives of the residents of the area and the commuters passing through.

The Central Bank of Sri Lankaissued a commemorative note in the denomination of Rupees 1000 to mark the ushering of peace and prosperity to Sri Lanka today.

It is six months since the end of the conflict in Sri Lanka but Tamil Tiger rebels and their supporters are yet to recover from the dramatic military defeat by security forces earlier this year.

The recent attempts by remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) abroad to revive the movement have not succeeded so far.

Now questions are being raised over the future of its international network and millions of dollars worth of assets spread across continents.

Women are the future of porn. On screen, behind the camera and buying the finished article, according to a proud posse of X-rated ladies.

Women have become a big new market for the sex industry, which has been badly hit by the growth of pirated movies and freely available amateur films on the internet.

Laura Meritt, owner of a sex shop for women, points to new growth areas in `sex toys, vibrators and other dildos` due to feminine demand.

Meritt plans to transform X-rated movie-making by putting a `PorYes` seal of approval on all films where women are the active subjects and not passive objects of the process.