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Rescue workers searching the wreckage of the chartered Britannia airliner which crashed on a hill outside Nicosia recently. The airliner, owned by the Swiss charter company, Globe Air, crashed in a rain and hail storm after being struck by lightni...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
An inferno of flames swept the main street of Munich recently, when a Convair transport aircraft of the United States Air Force crashed onto a tramcar filled with Christmas shoppers. Thirty people were killed. The aircraft was carrying 13 American...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
To start the Deepa Charika cycle race, the National Security Minister T.B. Werapitiye hoists the national flag. The chief chairperson of the Deepa Charika competition committee, the chief author of the Sinhala division of the Times Institute Elmo ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Ragama Children Activists Committee and the international children's day, the track and field event organized by 'Lankadeepa' included a slow cycling race. The winners Sarath Silva (middle), Nalin Mendis ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
BALANCE! or he falls, possibly, perilously. This man earns wages of fear, thrilling crowds with acrobatic stunts on a bicycle. He does this regularly at Peliyagoda and at times traffic is held up along the Negombo road; but no one has protested, f...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Among the three siblings who entered the "Deepa Charika" race, the two brothers Shantha Lal De Silva and Prithee Prabhath De Silva. Their sister who joined the race was Sandhya Mali De Silva. (Picture - T. C. Perera)
The Times of Ceylon Press
The bicycle has always been a popular mode of transport in the Jaffna Peninsula and now girls in Jaffna too have adopted this way of travelling. (Pic by Harry Dickumbura)
The Times of Ceylon Press
Maurice Coomaravel in the lead during the 'Lankadipa' cycle race held on Monday
The Times of Ceylon Press
An unusual sight of a horse pulling a bicycle was seen on a road in Netherlands. The Dutch have always been a careful race — and renowned for making allowances for all contingencies—but this looks as if things are being taken a little too far even...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
The Boys under 18 finish: Jayantha De Silva of Space Rockers SC streaks home the winner followed by Sunil Boteju (Just behind him) and Gunapala Seneviratne (extreme right)— third.
Daily Mirror