From legendary trash talk to playing left-handed just for fun, the stories about Larry Bird are almost too crazy to believe. But former players confirm—they’re all real. Bird wasn’t just a great ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

The trial of 84 Congolese soldiers accused of murder, rape and other crimes against civilians in the country's conflict-battered east opened Monday.