10 h. ago Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure

From Van Gogh’s starry skies to the nocturnal workings of Louise Bourgeois and Patricia Highsmith, sleepless nights have long inspired heightened creativity. Could those artistic impulses actually help us to sleep?I can’t remember when I first stopped sleeping soundly. Maybe as a child, in the bedroom I initially shared with my brother, Tariq. I would wait for his breathing to quieten, then strain to listen beyond our room in the hope of being the last one awake, and feel myself expanding into the liberating space and solitude. By my early 20s, that childhood game of holding on to wakefulness while others slept began playing out against my will. Sound seemed to be the trigger. It was as if the silence I had tuned into as a child was now a requirement for sleep. Any sound was noise: the burr of the TV from next door, the ticking of a clock in another room. When one layer of sound reduced its volume, another rose from beneath it, each intrusive and underscored by my own unending thoug...

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23 h. ago Not so fast, sir ... One Capitol Hill bureaucrat stands in the way of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Fourth of July

Republicans now have to rewrite a key part of their plan for Medicaid with vacation clock ticking

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4 d. ago Explosions ring out across the Middle East as clock ticks down to 'complete ceasefire' announced by Trump: Blasts hit from Israel to Iraq

As explosions rock cities across the Middle East, the region is waiting with bated breath for the 'complete ceasefire' that Donald Trump has promised Israel and Iran will announce today

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4 d. ago Explosions ring out across the Middle East as clock ticks down to 'complete ceasefire' announced by Trump

As explosions rock cities across the Middle East, the region is waiting with bated breath for the 'complete ceasefire' that Donald Trump has promised Israel and Iran will announce today

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8 d. ago Notting Hill Carnival safety: Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has 'significant concerns'

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3 w. ago The hunt for Maddie has unearthed a sickening stash, a chilling message and a'confession'

This week masked police officers armed with pickaxes, shovels and even a mechanical digger could be glimpsed working their way through a neglected patch of Portuguese scrubland.

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3 w. ago Djokovic has nowhere to hide against relentless Sinner in Paris showdown

The 38-year-old can prove he still remains at the top but his opponent seems to have his, and everyone else’s, number‘These kind of matchups and challenges in a way extract the best out of me,” said Novak Djokovic, smiling, as the clock ticked into the early hours of Thursday morning. Djokovic had demonstrated that sentiment in real time as he spectacularly rose to the occasion against the third-best player in the world, utilising the full breadth of his complete, unprecedented game to defeat Alexander Zverev and return to the semi-finals of the French Open, where he will face Jannik Sinner.“Playing best-of-five, late stages of a grand slam against No 1 in the world, you can’t get more motivated than that for me at this age,” said Djokovic. Continue reading...

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