From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures who died this year.

The world said goodbye to titans in sports, entertainment, politics, and beyond, and several deaths had broad ripple effects.

The year 2025 proved a period of profound reflection and significant change, as the world bid farewell to several influential figures across diverse spheres. The Catholic Church, with its 1.4 billion ...

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

In the cynical Brezhnev-era Soviet Union—where propaganda clashed with daily deprivation—Putin found a model of power in the romance of espionage. This chapter follows the stories, myths, and ...

Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney People crowd together in the sun. All smiles and waves. Joyous. Pandemonium erupts. Panic hits like a shockwave as those ...

WASHINGTON — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the ...

People crowd together in the sun. All smiles and waves. Joyous. Pandemonium erupts. Panic hits like a shockwave as those assembled swivel and bolt, spilling down a seemingly infinite flight of steps.

Is it possible to time-travel back to the mid-1960s, to a Tamil Nadu of the past, where the Dravidian uprising was reaching a pinnacle? The only medium with a transportive power that comes close to ...

Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later an animal rights activist, has died. She was 91. Bruno Jacquelin, of the ...

French actress Brigitte Bardot has died at the age of 91. The film star and 1960s “sex symbol” earned worldwide fame as one of the most recognisable faces of post-war cinema but later withdrew from ...