At least 38 Haitian migrants died after a boat in which they were trying to flee their country started taking in water and got stranded at sea, the Cuban government said.

The gruesome discovery was

President Raul Castro announced plans on Friday to pardon some 3,000 prisoners for 'humanitarian reasons,' a group amnesty of unprecedented size, and 'gradually' reform onerous laws restricting foreig

Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday blasted NATO's ‘genocidal role’ in toppling Muammar Gaddafi, and decried what he described as the assassination of the late Libyan strongman.

Kadhafi "was seriousl

On a farm in Cuba, five little piglets are doggedly insisting on getting their milk from a stray canine rather than their own mother.

Farmer Mannorkys Santamaria is bewildered that his sow has plenty

Hugo Chavez appeared on Cuban state television on Tuesday, alongside revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, for the first time since the Venezuelan president underwent emergency surgery here.

The 56-year-o

Cuban authorities exhumed the remains of dissident Orlando Zapata, who died in February 2010 after an 85-day hunger strike, to allow his family to take his ashes to the United States, the family said

Cuba's Jose Castelar on Tuesday finished rolling one large cigar at 81.8 meters (268.4 ft), his fifth Guinness world record.

"Cuba is the country where the best tobacco is grown, and as long as Cueto

A Cuban cigar roller began on Monday rolling a 70-meter (230-foot) cigar in an attempt to nearly double his previous Guinness world record, a spokesman said.

Working eight hours a day for nine days,

Fidel Castro confirmed he had resigned from the top leadership of the Cuba Communist Party in an article published on Tuesday.

"Raul knew that I would not accept a formal role in the party today," Ca

Cuba's Supreme Court has begun reviewing the appeal of a Cuban-American who is the last person remaining on death row in the island nation, state-run media said.

Cubadebate website on Tuesday said Humberto Eladio Real, who was convicted of killing a man in a 1994 raid, is seeking to have the death sentence against him commuted.