Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, seen at right with his wife, Maha, in 2006, will star in a stage production based on his experiences at the infamous U.S.-run prison.

Today's guest post is from the blog, Crossing the Barbed Wire , by Luis Felipe Rojas , a free and independent writer, journalist and poet from the town of San German in Holguin, Cuba.

HAVANA, Cuba - Several leading members of Russia's famed Bolshoi ballet will perform with their Cuban counterparts during a visit to Havana next week.

For much of President Obama 's first year in office, his national security team worked to devise a secure plan to send dozens of Yemeni detainees held at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba - the largest single group at the prison camp - home to Yemen, perhaps to a rehabilitation program.

Cuban police harassed and briefly jailed some 35 political dissidents this week in the eastern city of Camaguey, a Cuban human rights group said Friday.

Havana, Feb 5 The Cuban National Forest Ranger Corps predicted an increase of fire danger in the country, due to poor rain during the last four months, said Granma newspaper on Friday.

Next year will mark a half-century since the Bay of Pigs, the failed assault on Fidel Castro's young regime in Cuba that helped incite the long cold war across the Straits of Florida.

President Hugo Chavez has turned to his friends in Cuba for help in tackling Venezuela's energy crisis, drawing criticism for seeking advice from the communist-led island that has struggled with its own electricity woes.

A decision by Switzerland to give a home to two Chinese Muslim brothers detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years could allow the Obama administration to avoid a difficult Supreme Court argument over whether a judge can order detainees released into the United States.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 10:50 AM Tories stand pat on Omar Khadr T he Conservative government will not ask for Omar Khadr to be repatriated from an American detention centre in Cuba despite a Supreme Court ruling that his rights have been violated, the Foreign Affairs Minister said Wednesday.

A wax figure of U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway is seen at an exhibition at Bayamo wax museum in Cuba,... A wax figure of U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway is seen at an exhibition at Bayamo wax museum in Cuba, Tuesday, Feb.2, 2010.A life-size likeness of the legendary author of "The Old Man and the Sea" was unveiled last week at a wax museum in the ...

Men sell garlic and homemade peanut paste bars furtively along a highway in Matanzas province in Cuba.

Retail outlets selling everything in Cuban pesos are popping up across the country in what may be the government's first steps toward phasing out its unpopular two-currency system.

The Catholic Archdiocese in Havana has stated that Cuba's economic situation may be close to free fall.

Cuban blogger Orlando Luis Pardo reported earlier this week on citizen journalism portal All Voices that award-winning writers Manuel Garcia Verdecia and Rafael Vilches Proenza were fired from their jobs and expelled from the local writers union for improper use of the Internet.

Spain's top investigating judge Baltasar Garzon is to probe suspected torture and ill-treatment of inmates at the US prison of Guantanamo Bay, the daily El Pais has reported.

I was 30,000 feet in the air, trying to fall asleep with a copy of US magazine that was devoted entirely to celebrity dieting.

The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to order the Harper government to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled for February, the foreign minister said Thursday.