Fidel Castro News

Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.

November 12, 1972, marked the middle of a terrifying 32-hour jet hijacking, one of the more remarkable such air-industry ordeals in U.S. history.

And while cigar smoking is typically a boys' club, this collection was made in celebration of women in the cigar industry.

Today, all of Cuba is celebrating its 111-year old independence from Spain. Christopher Columbus arrives in 1492 that brought colonization by the Spaniards for over 400 years.

Patti Sheehy remembers thinking, this story has everything : Bravery, romance, suspense, and an evocative historical backdrop.

In his book The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba 1959-62 , General FabiA n Escalante , former chief and current historian of the Castro State Security, asserted that as early as in February 1959, the CIA representative Gerard Droller, a.k.a. Frank Bender, had agents in Cuba conspiring against Castro, "among them William Morgan." ... (more)

MARCH 01: The first American team makes the ascent of Mount Everest in 1963. Mount Everest, Nepal.

Jimmy Carter, one of Fidel Castro's best friends, and the elder statesman of liberal American politics has unexpectedly disappointed millions upon millions of liberals.

The country of Cuba is only 90 miles from the Florida Keys but in many ways we are worlds apart.

A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day Against Homophobia.

Amid sequester and scandal in Washington, the White House announced Friday that the president and first lady will be hosting another concert as part of their "In Performance at the White House" series later this month.

The jury is in. Turns out, Ilya Bryzgalov is not a complex, misunderstood Russian.

In effect, flying out as a butterfly from a cocoon. A beautiful human spring. It was a difficult time to host a society event in Havana as political upheaval loomed and a revolution was brewing.

BJPya katheyu haage aaytu! published on 11 May 2013. Who do we need to blame amongst these: B.S. Yeddyurappa, K.S. Eshwarappa, Jagadish Shettar, Ananth Kumar, Sushma Swaraj, Lal Krishna Advani, and Nitin Gadkari? Who do we hold accountable? Was the Karnataka BJP reduced to this pathetic state thanks to just one person? Or was it the combined ... (more)

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, left, sites beside his brother, Cuban President Raul Castro, in 2012.

"Barclays Wealth customers will no longer need to answer security questions and remember pin codes to use telephone banking," The Daily Telegraph says.

Varadero is currently the only 18-hole course in Cuba, but it will now be joined by others after the government approved a new multi-million dollar golf project Five decades after Fidel Castro ordered Cuba's golf courses to be closed down because he considered them "elitist", the island's communist government has approved the construction of a ... (more)

On the Friday of the last weekend in February, Cuban dictator Raul Castro caught the news agencies covering his island nation by surprise when he dropped a hint that he was thinking of retiring.

Barbara Walters is driven on a sightseeing tour by Fidel Castro in this June 6, 1977, file photo taken in Cuba.

Barbara Walters is hanging up her microphone, shots fired during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans injure 19, Sen.