(2001 pop. 105,000). Kandy is an ancient capital city situated in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, some 120 kilometers inland by rail from the capital of Colombo. Its hilly location is 560 meters above sea level. Kandy is chiefly famous among...

Ancient capital of Ceylon, 1592 to 1815. Contains the Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa), inner shrine of which contains the famous Tooth relic in a series of magnificently jewelled gold caskets. Kandy is scene of the Perahera annual procession in...

Coordinates: 7°17′49.06″N 80°38′18.43″E / 7.2969611,...

Picture Kandi Burruss, the svelte brown skinned former young buck of Xscape, lurking in the hallway of your apartment complex, scorned, launching random expletives at your front door, waiting to face the physical embodiment of her female intuition: you’re with another woman. As a general...

Kandi Hanson has a history of run-ins with deer. She totaled her first car and damaged two others in collisions with deer. This weekend, the deer struck back.As Hanson approached the halfway mark of the 10-kilometer Sour Grapes Half and Half run Saturday, a spooked...

Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown and Co."The opportunity to work with the American master Tom Wolfe is the kind of...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 13-19:May 13: Actress Bea Arthur is 85. Actor Harvey Keitel is 68. Singer Stevie Wonder is 57. Comedian Stephen Colbert ("The Colbert Report") is 43. Country singer Lari White is 42. Singer Darius Rucker of Hootie and the...