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Charlie Capalbo, whose cancer battles inspired the hockey world, died at the age of 23. Charlie Capalbo, a Fairfield resident whose multiple cancer battles inspired the community and the hockey world at large, died on Sunday. He was 23 years old. Rebecca Jarit, Capalbo’s aunt, announced the news on Facebook. John McCormick, a family friend, confirmed the news too Jarit wrote in her post that being released from the hospital after five years and 745 nights was a miracle.

By Jessica BatemanFeatures correspondent Getty ImagesGermany is the world's largest producer of lignite, the world's dirtiest form of coal (Credit: Getty Images)Germany is slowly shuttering its prolific lignite mines, which produce the least efficient type of coal. The ghostly towns in the mines' shadows may hold a lesson for how to move on. I'm standing in the middle of Old Manheim village, but my phone is telling me otherwise. On one side of me I can see the old church, its windows boarded up.

By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent Andrew TimmsSprinter is the first number one for Central Cee (left) and the third by Mercury Prize-winner DaveDave and Central Cee have topped the UK charts with their new single, Sprinter, setting a streaming record in the process. The collaborative track racked up 13.4 million streams last week - the highest number ever for a rap single. It is also the highest number of first week streams since Adele's Easy On Me was played 24 million times in 2021.

By Ewen HosieFeatures correspondent Computers and tablets are changing how we write – will the ability and need to wield a pen die out altogether? We're told that writing is dying. Typing on keyboards and screens dominates written communication today. Even scribbling a signature has become rarer due to the prevalence of chip-and-pin credit cards. In an age where our children swipe, pinch and tap on smartphones and tablets from birth, is the “hand” in “handwriting” about to be removed forever?

In his fascinating new novel, "Defectors," Joseph Kanon uses the tangled ties between two brothers to explore the world of espionage at the height of the Cold War. Kanon, the author of "The Good German," and "The Prodigal Spy," among others, is a master of the genre, and here delivers a book that will appeal to fans of "The Americans'' and "Bridge of Spies." The plot follows the lives of Frank and Simon Weeks.

Explore More A Manhattan woman says a man she met on Tinder for a potential threesome posted a racy picture of her online and sent it to her dad’s work email after she spurned him, new court papers allege. The victim — whose name is being withheld — says she met Jeffery Berger on Tinder on Aug. 3,  2019 through his profile that he shared with his girlfriend, “seeking a single female,” a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit alleges.

Explore More Video reveals the inside of a bizarre tunnel built by a group of young Hasidic Jewish menunderneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue. The footage, posted on CrownHeights.Info’s Instagram, leads viewers down stairs and through hallways to a dirt-filled room where a roughly 2-foot-by-2-foot grate has been removed from the wall of the building, which is adjacent to the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights. The videographer then crawls through the hole, which leads to a 3-foot-high dirt tunnel that reportedly extends about 50 feet and around two corners to the headquarters’ location of its shuttered men’s ritual bath.

Q: Seeing tiny holes — like the kind on some fruits or plants — makes my skin crawl. What’s going on with me? A: Some people have negative reactions to tiny, clustered holes. This is known as trypophobia. Visual triggers include lotus seed pods, bubbles surfacing on a pancake on the griddle and even the iPhones with clustered camera lenses. Around 10 to 15 percent of people find these images uncomfortable to look at, said Nate Pipitone, an associate professor of psychology at Florida Gulf Coast University, who has been studying trypophobia for several years.

Young Mr. Smith Goes to College Greg Smith walks to his first class Monday at Randolph Macon College. (AP) By Jennifer Lenhart Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 7, 1999; Page A01 ASHLAND, Va., Sept. 6 –– At precisely 8 a.m. today, Gregory Smith -- boy genius -- strode across the rain-soaked campus of Randolph-Macon College, his mom and dad in tow.