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 racing industry in Australia is mourning the loss of apprentice jockey Bronte Simpson, who died following a single-car accident the evening of Dec. 22. New South Wales Police said a good Samaritan ...

WASHINGTON -- Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 77. Crump ...

A pioneering female jockey who became the first woman to ride as a professional in the US has died peacefully. Diane Crump, 77, had been receiving palliative care since October last year when she was ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Diane Crump, who became the first professional female jockey in United States history and the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby, died January 1 at age 77 after ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world. This is how countless films and stories describe it, but scientists have always ...

Tony Martin, who booked rides for jockeys such as Joe Talamo, Corey Lanerie, Robbie Albarado, E.J. Perrodin, and Kirk LeBlanc ...

The suspect in the recent mass shooting at Brown University and the murder of an MIT professor in the eastern United States was found dead, with reports revealing that the perpetrator and the victim ...

French firm Newcleo has submitted the design of its lead-cooled small modular reactor (SMR) to Euratom, the European regulatory body overseeing nuclear safeguards, for review. This is part of a new ...

Lead exposure is one of the most urgent yet overlooked development challenges of our time. It affects millions of people worldwide — especially children — causing irreversible health damage and ...

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be ...