From milkshakes to booby-trapped shellfish, you can't say the CIA weren't creative in their attempts to assassinate Castro.

Prince Harry was left in an awkward position when he was asked to take part in a moment's silence after the death of Fidel Castro.

Funeral preparations were under way in Cuba as the country readies itself for a gathering of world leaders not seen since the death of Nelson Mandela.

Fidel Castro, who has died aged 90, became a revolutionary hero when he overthrew the corrupt and brutal dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba in 1959.

A Cuban cigar maker has broken his own record by rolling the world's longest cigar at 90m, dedicating the monster smoke to retired leader Fidel Castro.

A two-metre-high chocolate sculpture, is one of many things you can feast your eyes on at the New Zealand chocolate festival this weekend.

Amid shortages and after 50 years of living in retail darkness due, the light has snapped on for many Cubans.

US-Cuban normalisation has brought hundreds of thousands of dollars of supplies to build an up-to-date conservation facility for Hemingway artifacts

Cuba is also a more-than-safe place, with a rich cultural tradition and a unique social environment in constant transformation.

United States President Barack Obama challenged Cuba's Communist Government with an impassioned call for democracy and economic reforms yesterday.

There seems little doubt that the beachhead US economic forces are re-establishing in Cuba will eventually lead to a new era of political freedom.

Cuban trip comes amid high anticipation and anxiety on the island.

Cuba's tourism industry is under unprecedented strain with record numbers of visitors arriving.

Follow in Hemingway's footsteps in Havana.

Yenis Rojas, a doctor who has worked all her life for the state and yet she has fled as part of the largest outflow in 35 years.

A British man held in Guantanamo Bay has given an account of his 14-year ordeal and made a number of shocking claims.

When Pope Francis celebrates the first open-air mass of his visit to Cuba today, the ghost of Che Guevara will be looming over him.

On a pilgrimage to Cuba, Owen Scott and his ukulele bandmates meet new pals keen to strum and dance.

He portrayed himself as a man of the people who shunned the trappings of wealth.

I love Cuba. The place reeks of sun and mangoes, mystery and tobacco and sex. Cubans eat icecream like we drink long blacks and rum is as cheap as bottled water, Jack Tame writes.

In 2013 Pope Francis had a lot to celebrate. Not only was he named Time magazine person of the year, but was also awarded the title of Esquire's best-dressed man.

Here are four reasons why President Barack Obama's decision last week to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba was a good idea.

When Raul Castro came on the air to inform the nation that Cuba's quarrel with the US was ending, Cubans turned up their TVs, clapped their hands and some even cried.

A veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion, he fought alongside Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, and has a treasure trove of anecdotes...

It may seem hard to believe, after so many decades of rancour, that Fidel Castro first came to power with the aid of the US Government.

In Cuba, Ruaridh Nicoll discover's Ernest Hemingway's course is not for the fainthearted.