Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance to launch his memoirs.

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VIDEO: Fidel Castro launches memoirs

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro appears in public for the first time since April 2011 to launch a two-volume book of memoirs.

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Fidel Castro launches his memoirs

Ludwig and I had the kind of relationship where I could ask him anything without fear of reproach. I questioned him about the rebellious rumblings of his youth, his wishes for the future and the state of his bathroom. Read full article > >

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Cuba people-to-people tours: So nice to meet you, Havana

Cuba’s ruling Communist Party holds its first-ever national conference to consider changes in the way it runs the country and how to renew the ageing revolutionary leadership.

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Cuba party considers term limits

Cuban dissident Wilmar Villar dies after 50-day hunger strike protesting against his sentence for taking part in a demonstration.

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Cuban hunger striker dies in jail

At least a dozen teams have an interest in the Cuban defector Yoennis Cespedes, who has an athletic body and a home run bat.

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Cuba’s Yoennis Cespedes Could Be Baseball’s Hottest Free Agent

Standing in front of a brilliantly lighted 12-foot pine tree at her son’s home in Bowie, Gladys Boluda was all smiles, singing and dancing in step with her grandchildren to ’N Sync’s “Merry Christmas Happy Holidays.” With three days left before Christmas, the Boludas were putting the finishing touches on their annual Christmas video, a tradition that began with a family concert about a decade ago and has become a holiday essential, along with black beans and rice, yucca and other traditional Cuban fare. Read full article > >

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Bowie clan celebrates family and freedom on Christmas

Washington says it is disappointed that US citizen Alan Gross is not among the 2,900 prisoners to be released by Cuba as a gesture of goodwill.

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Cuba’s amnesty ‘disappoints’ US

The Obama administration, as part of an accelerated push toward an endgame in Afghanistan, last month reached a tentative accord with Taliban negotiators that would have included the transfer of five Afghans from U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the Taliban’s public renunciation of international terrorism. Read full article > >

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U.S. deal with Taliban breaks down

A satire of the revolution was included in an officially sanctioned film festival in Havana and has become a landmark in the gradual opening of Cuban cinema.

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Zombies in ‘Juan of the Dead’ Chomp on Cuba’s Sacred Cows

Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cuba in 2012, only the second visit by a pontiff to the Communist-run island, Vatican officials say.

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Pope set to visit Cuba next year

A man who stayed behind to fire-proof his house from a bushfire in Australia survives by using scuba gear and his neighbour’s pool.

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Scuba helps man escape bushfire

A man who stayed behind to fire-proof his house from a bushfire in Australia survives by using scuba gear and his neighbour’s pool.

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Scuba helps man escape bushfire

Taking advantage of looser restrictions, younger Cuban-Americans who still have strong family ties to the island have been visiting and sending money with regularity.

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Cuban-Americans Take Lead in Building Ties With Cuba

Cuban farmers will be allowed to sell their products directly to tourist businesses under new rules to be introduced next month.

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Cuba to ease agricultural sales