Crew riots and captain attempts suicide as officials board vessel

Head of Russian foreign affairs committee announces that he has accepted the offer in a tweet but quickly deletes it

Lawyers for four inmates have also filed petitions with the US government to stop this procedure during the religious festival

All 16 tourists on board taken to hospital after coach overturned on popular holiday route

Embassy confirms two men released after a secret court hearing

Australian endurance swimmer Chloe McCardel ended her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida after 11 hours in the water when she was stung by a jellyfish.

Over the past 25 years, Abelardo Morell has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder.

The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four US citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen.

The island state has previously sent 30,000 doctors to Venezuela in exchange for cheap oil

Alfredo Guevara, who died on 19 April at the age of 87, was a prominent film-maker, intellectual and cultural leader in Cuba. He was a close associate of Fidel and Raul Castro when they were rebel leaders and a backer of the struggle to remove Fulgencio Batista. After the 1959 revolution he became a leading cultural official and defender of the arts. He founded the Cuban Art and Cinematography Institute in 1959 and later the Festival of New Latin American Cinema. In the 1970s he was a vice minister of government.

A convicted American killer living in Cuba has become the first woman to be named on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list.

The Afghan leader was speaking on a visit to Denmark

The daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro has been refused permission to travel to Philadelphia, despite being invited to receive an award for her gay rights activism there.