4 h. ago Real reason you keep waking up at the same time in the middle of the night

Your room is dark, it's silent and all you have are your racing thoughts. The clock says 3am and you wonder if you're the only one but as it turns out, you're definitely not alone and here's why

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19 h. ago People are just realizing what it means if you keep waking up at the same time in the middle of the night

Waking up at the same time each night can send you into a panic and leave you wondering why but the real reason is more surprising than just a racing mind.

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2 d. ago Athlete diagnosed with brain tumour after suffering a seizure during sleep

WARNING: Graphic photographs of operation stitches. Nicholas Wade, 27, had a seizure in the middle of the night

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4 d. ago Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it | Bernard Harcourt

A message tucked into an old book serves as a reminder that the assault on the institution is part of a long-planned effortOn the shelf in my library, I have an autographed copy of a book written by a former Republican congressman from New York, John LeBoutillier, titled Harvard Hates America: The Odyssey of a Born-Again American. It was published in 1978, two years before LeBoutillier was elected to Congress – and decades before the Trump administration’s assault on the institution. But its message is familiar in 2025.The book is a scathing criticism of Harvard University, in large part over its supposed left-leaning professors who allegedly indoctrinate their undergraduates. Its thrust is straightforward: Harvard is America’s problem.Long after I had graduated from Harvard and was a freshman member of Congress, I realized just how terrible some of the people educating our young are; they are not only liberals, but they use their “power” over their students to preach an anti-Americ...

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4 d. ago Kate Garraway wakes up in middle of night panicking she hasn't given Derek his medicine

Kate Garraway, often a host of Good Morning Britain, looked after her husband Derek Draper, who died in January 2024 following a cardiac arrest after a journey with long COVID

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5 d. ago Plastic surgeon jailed for life over attempted murder of fellow doctor

Peter Brooks, 61, doused petrol on floor of Graeme Perks’s Nottinghamshire home before stabbing him in abdomenA plastic surgeon who attempted to murder a colleague he “hated” has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.Jonathan Peter Brooks, 61, known as Peter, who specialised in treating burn scars, broke into the Nottinghamshire home of Graeme Perks in the middle of the night on 14 January 2021 wearing camouflage gear and doused the floor with petrol with the intention of setting it alight. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Hotel guest who was bitten 30 times by bed bugs in infested room tells how she woke up to see them 'crawling on the bed'

EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Aggarwal, 53, shut herself in the bathroom for two hours after she woke up in the middle of the night 'scratching' at a three-star hotel in Henley-on-Thames.

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8 d. ago Crystal Palace’s European dream is at risk – it’s time for football to wake up

Crystal Palace face the prospect of not being able to play in the Europa League thanks to multi-club ownership, with John Textor holding stakes in the Eagles and Lyon

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8 d. ago Chilling Clown Motel with thousands of creepy clown dolls and cemetery next door

Welcome to the Clown Motel - 'America's scariest motel' and home to a 5,000-strong clown collection. Just make sure you're prepared for purported 7ft uninvited guests in the middle of the night

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1 week ago I tried everything to fix my incontinence. Here’s what worked

‘I’m tired of peeing in my pants,’ I said to the urogynecologist. ‘Please fix me’Buy an exclusive print from our Well Actually seriesLast October, I got out of bed to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. Sleepy and seated on the toilet, I was shocked into wakefulness by a loud sound.The night before, in my latest attempt to manage incontinence, I’d been working out how to use a Kegel ball, a marble-like vaginal insert that claims to help with pelvic floor strengthening. I’d accidentally fallen asleep with it inside me, and the ball had hit the porcelain bowl. Uh-oh. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I own the UK's most haunted hotel and this is why people leave in the middle of the night'

My Haunted Hotel is now available to stream on Prime Video

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1 week ago Voices: Tiananmen massacre: It’s time to wake up and stand up to the butchers of Beijing

On the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Benedict Rogers says that the question is not whether China has changed – it hasn’t – but whether the free world has the courage to wake up and act on its morals

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1 week ago 'Distressing' dementia warning sign can appear in the middle of the night

In a study, people who exhibited this sign were four times more likely to experience cognitive decline.

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1 week ago Anger over planned rail works at night in middle of exam season

Transport for Wales (TfW) said the work to replace the old tracks on the Coryton line is safety critical and needs to be done at night

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1 week ago People are just realizing why Southerners paint their porch ceilings blue

Southern porches are often adorned with a blue ceiling, and people are just finding out why.

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2 w. ago Shocking ways people pay 'single tax' without even realizing

The so-called 'singles tax' is very real, and it's not just coming for your dating life - it's hitting your budget, too.

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2 w. ago Viral kangaroo clip sends viewers into a crisis... but can YOU spot the problem?

Viewers were clamoring about how adorable and funny the viral video was - but now, the clip has sparked even wider ripples after people realized the truth.

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2 w. ago Arne Slot speaks for the first time since Liverpool trophy parade crash horror

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has spoken for the first time in the wake of a car knocking down a crowd of people following his side's Premier League trophy parade on Monday.

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3 w. ago ‘A case study on psychosis’: men on why Tim Robinson’s Friendship feels a little too real

‘I was so incredibly uncomfortable,’ one man said of watching the new cringe comedy starring Robinson and Paul RuddFriendship is a nightmare – especially if you’re a guy.The new film, starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, follows middle-aged Craig (Robinson), who spends every night sitting alone, in the same chair, until he makes friends with his neighbor Austin (Rudd). But their joint adventures end in a friendship breakup, essentially because Craig is too weird. (Warning: mild spoilers ahead.) Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Horror moment family is forced to flee their home in the middle of the night after 'arsonist' targets cars and sparks an inferno

Chilling footage shows the masked man pouring a liquid over the £70,000 Range Rover, a 1994 Mitsubishi 3000 GTO sports car and a van, before setting them all on fire.

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