24 h. ago I spent four decades not sleeping a wink – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously

Insomnia is not a grievance made by difficult women. It’s a life-threatening condition that often stems from a physical issue many doctors refuse to seeIn February, I taught memoir writing at a conference in Mexico where the faculty is traditionally put up with local hosts. Mine was especially communicative in the months leading up to my arrival, going out of his way to indicate affordable rooftop bars, the finest locations to view murals, and general best practices for the city he’d adopted as his own.So when I told my host that I have chronic insomnia, I felt he’d take me seriously, given how generous he’d been in his emails. “I’ve traveled a lot throughout Mexico,” I wrote him. “And the one thing I can’t deal with as an insomniac is roosters.” Continue reading...

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28 h. ago ‘Their relationship has ebbed and flowed’: a father and son grow up – in pictures

Photographer Sarah Mei Herman was 20 when her half-brother Jonathan was born – she spent the next two decades capturing intimate moments between him and their father Continue reading...

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61 h. ago Paul House, who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was freed, has died.

Paul “Greg” House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, has died

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66 h. ago Martin Tyler ‘really annoyed’ by Man Utd bias claims with Liverpool stance made clear

Martin Tyler spent over three decades as the voice of the Premier League for Sky Sports and has long been accused of favouring Manchester United over Liverpool

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4 d. ago Kenyan man who spent decade on death row sues London police for role in wrongful conviction

New emails reveal ‘panic’ inside the Home Office at the case of Ali Kololo, who was wrongly imprisoned for the 2011 murder of British tourist David TebbuttA Kenyan man who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death over an attack on British tourists is suing the Metropolitan police over its role in the case.Ali Kololo was imprisoned for more than a decade in what his lawyers called “appalling conditions” before being released when his conviction was quashed in 2023. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Michael Schumacher's wife 'doesn't talk about the accident' for heartbreaking reason

Michael Schumacher has spent more than a decade requiring round-the-clock medical care since the life-changing injuries he suffered in a skiing accident in the French Alps

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7 d. ago Single mum pleads for permanent home after nine years in 'temporary accommodation'

Trina Downey has spent nearly a decade being moved between different homes after being forced to leave her original property due to a rat infestation

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9 d. ago California couple deported after 35 years in the US. Three daughters stunned

Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez spent nearly four decades raising a family in the USA after fleeing instability in Colombia

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1 week ago Patrick Schwarzenegger is the ultimate nepo baby! A member of Kennedy family and another political dynasty

One of those set to star in White Lotus, is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick, 31, who has spent the last decade quietly climbing the ranks in Hollywood.

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1 week ago A bridge too far! Network Rail surrender after war movie star Edward Fox spoke out over controversial railway crossing in his hometown

The actor (pictured), 87, has spent nearly a decade fighting plans, proposed in 2017, to build a 'hideous' modern foot bridge over the Grade II-listed Victorian station in Wareham, Dorset.

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1 week ago ‘Prank shows are normally done by thick people or jocks’: Dom Joly on the return of Trigger Happy TV

The 00s star has spent decades trying to escape the legacy of his beloved hidden camera show – only to realise it’s time to bring it back on stage. He talks about fooling a Python, hating Noel Edmonds and why he can’t escape the giant phoneThe first episode of Trigger Happy TV aired 25 years ago. Its very first sequence was of a man screaming into an oversize phone, startling the unwitting diners at a fancy restaurant. “The following Monday I was on a train, and that ringtone went off,” recalls the show’s co-creator and star Dom Joly. “Three people in the carriage stood up and went: ‘Hello! I’m on a train!’ And I sat there thinking: ‘Holy shit, something extraordinary has happened.’”Joly isn’t often drawn into conversation about Trigger Happy TV. In the 20-plus years since the show ended in 2003, he has busied himself with plenty of other projects – books, columns, TV shows, podcasts – but nevertheless has found it hard to shake off his breakout hit. “Every time I do anyth...

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2 w. ago From sleeping in doorways to reporting on homelessness: the journalist chronicling an American crisis

Kevin Fagan, who spent decades at the San Francisco Chronicle, argues in a new book that ‘atrociously unforgivable’ US poverty must be addressedVeteran journalist Kevin Fagan spent decades covering homelessness for the San Francisco Chronicle, reporting on a crisis that persists despite billions poured into housing and services and years of political debate.The issue is personal for him. Fagan was episodically homeless in his youth, sleeping in his car and camping outside while he attended college and later in doorways abroad as a traveling musician. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Coronation Street stars join forces for huge first with soap legends set to reveal all

A number of legends who have spent decades on the Cobbles as set to reveal all about their time in the show

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3 w. ago The big picture: Sebastián Bruno brings an outsider’s eye to a wedding in Cardiff

The Argentine photographer spent more than a decade living in Wales and capturing community life there, including one bride’s big dayIsolate the three figures in the middle of this photograph by Sebastián Bruno and it could be the centre spread of a wedding magazine: the bride in a tiara clutching an effusion of white flowers, her veil extending out of shot; the two glamorous bridesmaids next to her in high heels, one resting a supportive hand on the bride’s left shoulder. But then restore the context – the modest front gardens, the satellite dishes and telephone wires – and we’re in a housing estate in Cardiff in summer 2020 under a glowering grey sky. To the side a flower girl, finger in mouth, fixes the photographer (whose shadow we glimpse at the bottom alongside that of his flash) with an interrogative scowl.Bruno had been living in Wales for a decade at this point but he shoots the scene – and others in his wonderful series Ta-ra – with an outsider’s eye, picking out heightene...

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3 w. ago EastEnders legend Natalie Cassidy fires dig at 'cringe' stars who want 'everything for free'

EastEnders icon Natalie Cassidy, who spent over two decades in the BBC soap, has taken a swipe at celebrities who accept free products, branding them "morons"

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3 w. ago Lady Gaga lost her edge – her new album needs to bring it back

The star has spent a decade in a jazz and soft-rock haze, her newer pop efforts oddly anonymous for an artist once so electrifying. Her new album ‘Mayhem’ does feel like a return to form – but it’s her recent comments on her regained confidence as an artist that sound most promising, writes Adam White

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