Laxmi Saman Muran's one-year-old son is suffering from tuberculosis of the brain.

CNN: NUCLEAR FALLOUT

It did not affect the hosts' concentration, however, as they built on a solid start from openers Saman Jayantha (34) and Avishka Gunawardene (49).

BBC: Sri Lanka see off India

Mrs Sumanawathie lives with her 36-year-old daughter, Saman Malini.

ECONOMIST: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds

The Newsday journalists, reporter Matthew McAllester, 33, and photographer Moises Saman, 29, said they were seized by Iraqi authorities at their hotel in Baghdad last Tuesday morning, handcuffed and taken to a prison where they were interrogated and held until Monday under harsh conditions.

CNN: Missing journalists safe in Jordan