Odds and ends

Bait knocks out cockroaches, and asthma symptom days https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170117105040.htm

Yuri Geller 

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4133044/Yuri-Geller-convinced-CIA-psychic-powers.html

Battery technology  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4132800/Researchers-reveal-potassium-superbattery-breakthrough.html

The antiquity of silk

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4106304/The-world-s-oldest-SILK-Evidence-luxury-material-8-500-year-old-tombs-China.html

The use of the Appendix 
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4103846/Human-appendix-DOES-serve-purpose-Supposedly-pointless-organ-vital-storing-good-gut-bacteria.html


Sri Lankan news

Ministerial Subcommittee To Analyze Drought - http://anynews.lk/s/jwbd 

Drought affects 600,000 in 13 districts - http://anynews.lk/s/jwll 

UN assures cooperation on Sri Lanka drought relief - http://anynews.lk/s/jwlh 

Uva PC To Seek Justice For Uva People - http://anynews.lk/s/jwlm