Cuba claimed its own the arms found on board a North Korean ship that Panama impounded, saying the missile system parts were to be repaired and returned.

Raul Castro stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Latin American countries that have expressed a willingness to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but made no apparent reference to whether Cuba would be willing to offer him refuge or safe passage.

With a team of scientists on her side, Australian Chloe McCardel set out to become the first person to make the 166-km swim between Cuba and the Florida Keys without a shark cage to protect her.

A power outage caused by a transmission failure left a significant part of Cuba, including the capital, in the dark on late Sunday.

The state-run Electric Union company said the blackout affected 10

Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, a winner of the Sakharov human rights prize who challenged the island's communist regime for decades, died on Sunday in a car accident, the government and a priest said.

Famed sexologist Mariela Castro, daughter of the Cuban president, said on Thursday she expected her country this year will pass a same-sex marriage law, although she said Cuba still needs to be "more

Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, both octogenarians, joked about their age in a brief meeting on Wednesday and then Castro popped the question: so what do you do?

The two wo

Pope Benedict XVI was to meet Fidel Castro and hold a huge outdoor mass in Havana on Wednesday as he wraps up a three-day visit in which he called for a more 'open society' on the Communist-run island

Cuba's vice president declared on Tuesday that there would be ‘no political reforms’ introduced on the communist island, despite a call one day earlier from Pope Benedict XVI for greater openness duri

Cuban leader Fidel Castro presented two volumes of his memoir entitled ‘Time Guerrilla’ in a ceremony that marked his first public appearance since last April, Cuban media reported.

The memoirs trace