The first delegations, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean to attend, with their experts and culture ministers, the 5th International Culture and Development Congress are already in Havana

The captain of the Cuban soccer team, the central defender Yenier Márquez, said that there is a "contagious optimism" in the team of being able to advance to the second round of the Gold Cup, in United States.

The V International Culture and Development Congress, due for next June in Havana, is proposing delegates from around the world to focus on ways to implement UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity.

Once again, the notoriety of this territory in the creation of pottery and ceramics is showed up in the Clay and Fire Party

Cuba´s first Museum of the Railroad reopened in the municipality of Bejucal, Havana

There are three levels in the physiotherapy course offered in Cuba. The first level is called basic technician and is attained after one year of intensive hands-on training. The second level, (superior) technician is attained at the end of the third year. If you continue to the fifth year you would complete the third and final level which is called 'Licensing'.

Cuba, with its exceptional craft and popular music, seduces the visitors from the most different regions at a fair in Paris.

The Cuban film La edad de la peseta -The silly age-, by the young movie director, Pavel Giroud, will be exhibited at the San Francisco Movie Festival,

The longest Prado Promenade in Cuba, located in the south-western province of Cienfuegos, was awarded the 2007 Conservation Prize for preserving patrimonial values in its 300 buildings and surrounding areas.

Cuban songwriter Silvio Rodriguez will offer several concerts in this capital, two of them at the National Auditorium and a third at the Zocalo Plaza, as the local press said here Saturday.

More than 2,000 cigar aficionados from all over the world will participate in the Cuban Partagas cigar House anniversaries next week, official spokesmen announced.

Cuba has the largest network of germplasm banks (12) in the Caribbean and is the only country in the area with an organized program of conservation, maintenance and use of important species in agriculture.

With images of Argentina-born revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara and Cuban president Fidel Castro, world renown photographer Rene Burri opens his largest exhibition ever Friday in Cuba.

The Fifth American Cantat International Choral Festival got underway Friday evening with an inaugural concert held at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana.

Most Cuban Americans living in the area of Miami-Dade (Florida) favor unrestricted travel to Cuba, according to a survey released on Monday.

The Cuban strategy for dealing with water shortages is very sensible and its greatest challenge is to use it with more efficiency, said Francisco Arias Milla, representative of the UN food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Cuba.

Cuba expects its economic growth to slip down a gear this year to around 10 percent but remain among the strongest in the region, a senior government official said on Thursday.

Cuba's stand at the International Tourist Fair "Inturmarket-2007," opened Sunday in this capital, was noticed by thousands of visitors who attended the main Krokus-Expo exhibition center.

A new Habano House, selling the best of Cuban cigars, was recently opened in China in the hotel Westin in Beijing, with the presence of many local business men and Cuban embassy officials.

The film "Viva Cuba," Juan Carlos Cemata, won the Golden Award for best film at the International Children s Film Festival in Cairo.

Caguanes National Park (PNC), one of Cuba’s most important marhlands, is back to normality.

Cuban specialists are developing polymeric membranes that could be used as artificial skin for patients with third-degree burns.

Works of Adigio Benítez, National Prize for plastic arts 2002 exhibited at Villa Manuela gallery of the Cuban National Association of Writers and Artists until next March 23rd under the title Essay about Hope.

Musical brand Graffiti Records launched the special album called Como los peces by Cuban singer song-writer Carlos Varela as people close to the author of the song Guillermo Tell announced.

The first Cuban Internet search engine for sites within the .cu domain was presented Thursday at the 12th International Informatics Convention and Fair 2007, which concludes Friday in Havana.

To the delight of snowbirds and the unease of climate watchers, the ongoing winter season continues to be marked by unusually high temperatures in all three regions of the Cuban archipelago.

Cuba confirmed in 2006 its leading position as Russia's chief tourist destination in Latin America and the Caribbean.

More than 500 publishers from 82 countries will participate at the 16th International Book Fair in Cuba

Cuban pianist Frank Fernández was selected to represent Latin American in the upcoming celebration for the 140th anniversary of Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow