Sri Lanka has grappled with a struggling energy grid for years, and monkeys are making it worse. On Sunday at around 11:00 local time (12:30 AM EST), a nationwide blackout forced its 22 million ...

A monkey has been blamed for causing a nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka. The island nation's 22 million residents were mostly left without power during the outage, which began around 11am local ...

The reason behind one of the worst power outages in the island nation’s history, authorities said, was a monkey. The outage began at around 10.45am local time and continued for several hours ...

COLOMBO: An intruding monkey at a Sri Lankan electrical grid sub-station caused a general islandwide blackout on Sunday (Feb 9), government officials said. The power outage began around 11.30am ...