Cuba News

Alan Gross began his fifth year as a prisoner of Cuba's unjust "justice" system last week, a symbol of the continuing estrangement between that island nation and the United States, and, more important, the fundamentally unchanged nature of the governing regime.

What does Lindsay Lohan have against a quiet evening at home? Whenever she stays out late, trouble is bound to follow.

President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, a simple gesture that signaled possible thawing between the leaders of two Cold War foes.

A week after four people died in a New York commuter train derailment, two federal lawmakers proposed Sunday that trains nationwide be outfitted with cameras pointed at engineers and at the tracks.

But as more and more islanders go into business for themselves under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, the ethos of capitalism is increasingly seeping into Cuban daily life, often in stark conflict with fundamental tenets of the Cuban Revolution.

Ras Khamis, a poor neighborhood in a neglected part of Jerusalem, might be mistaken for being outside the city altogether.

"The route will include about 10 places of worship in the Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Poltava and Khmelnitsky regions," the cabinet of the governor of the Cherkasy region, Sergei Tulub, said in a statement last month to daily Vesti.

The European Union regrets the attendance at an event it sponsored of an anti-Zionist rabbi who has been accused of Holocaust denial, the parliament spokeswoman has said.

A$AP Ferg + Joey Fatts+ Aston Matthews+Overdoz+100s Irving Plaza 7:00 p.m., $20 "It's lonely at the top," confesses A$AP Ferg at one point on his debut album, Trap Lord.

Yesterday, the Internet was abuzz with the fact that Israeli supermodel Gal Gadot had been cast as Wonder Woman in the upcoming "Batman vs. Superman."

Nelson Mandela, icon of South African freedom, passed away today at the age of 95. People around the world signed on to Twitter to mourn collectively, and celebrities were no exception.

Hundreds of haredi Orthodox protesters took part in a second day of demonstrations against the jailing of a yeshiva student who refused to present himself at an IDF enlistment center.

Widespread protests in Ukraine have prompted the country's Jewish communities to up security arrangements, a community leader from Kiev has said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said progress is being made in the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The chants of "Free Alan Gross!" were unlikely to reach the ears of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

Cuban music is coming to New York - by way of Paris. The New York Festival of Song's 2013-14 Mainstage series resumes Dec. 5 with "Cubans in Paris, Cubans at Home," a five-section, 90-minute concert primarily composed of music that journeyed from Cuba's nightclubs and theaters to Paris during the late 1920s and '30s.

Little four year old Rosie Miller and her friend, Michelle Clark are reading a story together.

On November 12th, the three of us traveled twelve hours by bus from Havana to reach HolguA n, site of the 9th International Colloquium for the Freedom of the Five.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG, with Steven Blier , Artistic Director, and Michael Barrett , Associate Artistic Director, continues its 2013-14 Mainstage series at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center with "CUBANS IN PARIS, CUBANS AT HOME", featuring Cuban music's rich history in the concert halls, theaters, and nightclubs of two continents.

The United States called on Monday for the immediate release of an American contractor jailed for the past four years in Cuba, saying his continued captivity on the communist-ruled island was "gravely disappointing."