Miami: A Cuban-American father and daughter face a possible jail term or hefty fines after their attempt to bring 72 unhatched pigeon eggs from Cuba to the United States fell foul of U.S. Customs. The United States maintains a long-running trade embargo against Cuba that prohibits commercial imports from the communist-ruled island and often leads to seizures of illicit shipments of Cuban cigars destined for U.S. connoisseurs. But Rufino Blanco,...
09:27 AM, Dec 24, 2010
Havana: Cuba has begun its own online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the goal of presenting its version of the world and history. It describes its longtime ideological enemy, the United States, as "the empire of our time" and "the most powerful nation of all time." EcuRed (www.ecured.cu) will be launched officially on Tuesday, but it was already up and running on Monday, with 19,345 entries. It was developed "to...
10:31 AM, Dec 14, 2010
Havana: A plane reportedly carrying 68 people crashed in central Cuba on Thursday and there were no initial reports of survivors, according to state-run news media and sources at Havana and Santiago de Cuba airports. Cuban television said the plane was an ATR-72-212 twin turboprop aircraft that belonged to Cuba's state-owned Aero Caribbean airline. The plane was said to have left Santiago de Cuba en route to Havana around 4...
09:13 AM, Nov 05, 2010
Mexico City: Cuban leader Fidel Castro describes the illness that caused him to step down from power in near-religious terms a 'calvary' and his recovery a sort of resurrection. Castro, 84, made the remarks in an interview with a Mexican daily. "I was dead," Castro said in the interview. "I no longer aspired to living". After nearly half a century at the helm of the communist Caribbean island, Castro stepped...
02:04 PM, Aug 31, 2010
Castro warned that there could be a nuclear war if US President Barack Obama ordered an attack on Iran. ...
11:03 AM, Aug 08, 2010
The Cuban leader launched the 896-page memoir at a televised ceremony held at the Havana International Convention Centre. ...
04:59 PM, Aug 03, 2010
He often has praised Obama in recent years, but painted him as a pawn of the global capitalist machine on Wednesday. ...
07:57 PM, Jun 03, 2010
The child's parents allege the nurse didn't regulate temperature. ...
05:46 PM, Feb 22, 2010
Cuba Gooding Jr reportedly lined up to play the troubled celebrity golfer. ...
04:51 PM, Dec 31, 2009
Parents allege that faulty incubators was the reason. ...
08:58 PM, Nov 16, 2009
Parents allege the babies due due to failure of incubators. ...
04:32 PM, Nov 16, 2009
Instead of being a cocoon of safety, incubators are fast turning into graves. ...
06:08 PM, May 03, 2009
The incident took place in a private hospital in Allahabad. ...
12:16 PM, May 03, 2009
The PM has announced a relief of Rs 1 lakh for the families. ...
01:02 AM, Feb 01, 2009
It is suspected that the fire broke out due to a short circuit. ...
09:31 AM, Jan 31, 2009
Fidel Castro ousted the ruling government in 1959. ...
01:47 PM, Jan 02, 2009
It happened at Sushila Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital in Meerut. ...
11:56 AM, Nov 16, 2008
This is the third powerful hurricane to lash the Caribbean island. ...
06:02 PM, Nov 09, 2008
Cuba is to play the US at the RFK Stadium later on Saturday. ...
12:42 PM, Oct 11, 2008
It's the most comprehensive study of 5,500 species across 130 countries. ...
01:15 PM, Oct 07, 2008
