21 h. ago I woke up one day and my mother was gone, never to be seen again. It was only years later, when my father made a chilling phone call to my brother, that we discovered what happened

When a five-year-old Joanne Law awoke at her home near Newcastle on a March morning in 1973, she knew instantly that something was wrong.

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29 h. ago Edinburgh Council 'sorry' after family told they can return to fire ravaged home

Margaret Ramsay 60, Paul Gibson 31, and David Gibson 30, were awoken in the middle of the night by emergency services banging on their door as a blaze erupted across their landing.

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30 h. ago Mother of two died while heroically saving her children from holiday park caravan blaze sparked by faulty fire alarm, inquest hears

'Utterly devoted' Ruth Pingree, 42, helped her children escape before succumbing to the fumes on the family holiday in Suffolk. She died after becoming overwhelmed by the raging fire.

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65 h. ago Officials work to uncover the motive for fire set at Pennsylvania governor's residence

Investigators are working to uncover the motive behind an arson fire over the weekend at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion, the latest act of political violence in the U.S. They are digging into Cody Balmer’s background after authorities said he scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion

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3 d. ago Pennsylvania arson suspect planned to beat governor with hammer, documents say

Authorities say suspect told them he would have beaten Josh Shapiro with sledgehammer if he had found himA man who authorities said scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion – where he set a fire – had planned to beat the governor, Josh Shapiro, with a hammer if he found him because he hates the politician, according to court documents released on Monday.The fire left significant damage and forced Shapiro, his family and guests to evacuate the building early on Sunday. The man, arrested later in the day, faces charges including attempted homicide, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault, authorities said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence planned to beat him, documents say

Court documents say a man who authorities say scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion where he set a fire had planned to beat Gov. Josh Shapiro with a hammer if he found him

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5 d. ago 'I thought I was going deaf but had a LEGO brick stuck in my ear for 20 YEARS'

A student who believed he was going deaf woke in the middle of the night with his left ear in agony. The journalism undergraduate had recently seen the doctor about his worrying hearing loss.

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5 d. ago Mum woke up panicking under the bed after experiencing terrifying symptoms

GP Annabelle Holloway, 61, woke up "very unsettled" in the middle of the night and had to be pulled out from under her own bed

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8 d. ago Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped – Australia – to save his family

Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today’s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastHuddled on Afghanistan’s chaotic border with Pakistan, his young son shivering in the cold, Ibrahim Danish stared at the unmoving metal gates – willing them to open, even just for a moment.“We spent the night there in the middle of the street with little Daniel and it was [the most] difficult night of my life,” he says. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago 'I went to fix faulty alarm in middle of night and something chilling happened'

Adam Mawson recalled the moment almost a decade ago that his wife had a spooky encounter in the middle of night on their bed, whilst he was tending to a faulty alarm downstairs

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1 week ago Chilling Polaroid snaps give sinister clues to what may have happened to missing woman

Tara Calico, 19, disappeared during a bike ride on September 20, 1998, but never came home - mystery remains some 34 years on after sinister Polaroid pictures emerged

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2 w. ago 'My smartwatch woke me up in the middle of the night on holiday

Chris Ball had no history of heart problems and thought he was fit and healthy - but his Apple Watch detected something was wrong

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2 w. ago ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies

The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say expertsIt was the middle of the night when Zarin Gul realised that her daughter Nasrin had to get to the hospital as soon as possible. Her daughter’s husband was away working in Iran and the two women were alone with Nasrin’s seven children when Nasrin, heavily pregnant with her eighth child, began experiencing severe pains.Gul helped Nasrin into a rickshaw and they set off into the night. Holding her daughter’s hand as the rickshaw jolted over the dirt road, Gul says she prayed they would not encounter a Taliban checkpoint. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The haunting Polaroid snaps that give sinister clues to what happened to missing teenager

Haunting Polaroid snaps gave investigators chilling clues to what happened to missing woman. Tara Calico disappeared on September 20, 1988, while on a routine bike ride near her home in New Mexico

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2 w. ago Revealed: The haunting Polaroid snaps that give chilling clues to what happened to missing teenager

Haunting Polaroid snaps gave investigators chilling clues to what happened to missing woman. Tara Calico disappeared on September 20, 1988, while on a routine bike ride near her home in New Mexico

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2 w. ago Dementia symptoms to spot including waking up in the middle of the night

Dementia is a syndrome linked to the ongoing decline of the brain - and there are a number of warning signs that can appear in the middle of the night, according to experts.

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2 w. ago Teenage woman raped in UK family park in middle of the night

Police say the woman is now being supported by specially trained officers

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3 w. ago I spoke to children in Gaza this week and here’s what they told me: they just want to live | Shaima Al

As war resumes, so does the death sentence for Gaza’s children. The UK must not be an ally to further atrocitiesShaima Al-Obaidi is a senior media manager at Save the Children UKWhen I was woken up in the middle of the night on Tuesday by the roar of airstrikes and blaring ambulance sirens, I quickly realised that, once again, Israeli forces were unleashing hell on Gaza. It was a night of terror, but one that is all too familiar for Gaza’s children and families after 16 months of war. A reported 174 children were killed – one of the largest child death tolls in a single day.Events have escalated rapidly since then. The attacks persist, and Gaza is once again divided. The Israeli military has imposed restrictions, blocking access to northern Gaza from the south. More than 50 of my colleagues in the north now confront the choice of staying to face tanks and bullets or leaving their homes with barely a moment to process their losses.Shaima Al-Obaidi is a senior media manager at Save th...

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4 w. ago Husband who murdered his pregnant wife 25 years ago then hid her body admits asking son to dig up her remains in bid to get out of jail

Debbie Griggs, 34, was four months pregnant when she mysteriously disappeared from her home in Deal, Kent in the middle of the night on May 5, 1999.

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4 w. ago ‘It was like an earthquake’: Notting Hill residents forced to flee homes in middle of night after roof collapse

Residents described hearing a ‘horrendous bang’ as the roof of the Notting Hill homes collapsed on top of them

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