At least 16 people killed and 37 wounded as the Tamil Tiger rebels exploded a bomb at the entrance of a department store in a Colombo suburb.

Sri Lankan government forces attacked Tamil Tiger’s bunkers on the northern border of the country. Five rebels were killed in the battle.

Sri Lankan air force jets pound a Tamil Tiger rebel boatyard after clashes kill 5 guerrillas, military says.

The Sri Lankan military says troops have killed 19 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the north of the island. One soldier was killed in the clashes in the Jaffna peninsula and Vavuniya, the latest in an offensive launched by the military to push the rebels deeper into their northern strongholds.

Rebel troops of separatist Tamil Tiger attacked government soldiers in two violent battles in northern Sri Lanka on Thursday. Air force jets attacked military base, 14 rebels were killed.

Sri Lanka's military says troops destroyed four Tamil Tiger rebel bases in the island's restive east during fierce fighting that killed 30 rebels.

Tamil rebels have attacked a Sri Lankan naval base on the island of Delft, off the country's northern Jaffna peninsula, killing several sailors. The rebels say they overran the base Thursday and killed 35 sailors, but Sri Lanka's military says fewer than 10 sailors were killed.

At least 10 LTTE cadres have been killed and 15 others injured in two simultaneous clashes with the security forces in Sri Lanka's northern district of Mullaithivu, reports our Colombo correspondent KM Ravindran.

Britain has suspended aid payments to Sri Lanka, because of concerns about the country's human rights record and intensifying violence. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the suspension comes a year and a half after new fighting erupted between the Sri Lanka government and Tamil Tiger rebels.