Although the International Monetary Fund predicts a 3.3 percent growth of the world economy this year, roughly equal to 2013, this does not mean an end to the economic crisis that began in 2008.

Some 200 delegates from 15 nations are gathering at the 9th International Workshop on Cancer Immune-Therapy, underway in Havana till Friday.

Cuba´s First Vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel visited education centers in the central city of Santa Clara and met with professors and students on the quality of the teaching process during the current school year.

José Ramón Machado Ventura, Second Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, received this Tuesday morning Tran Quoc Vuong, member of the Secretariat of the Vietnam Communist Party and chief of the General Office of its Central Committee, who pays an official visit to Cuba.

More than one hundred medical professionals from 18 Latin American and Caribbean nations are attending the first International Workshop for the prevention and fight against Ebola, underway till November 14 at Havana´s Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute.

Preparations for Pedagogy, the largest meeting of the education sector in Cuba, are in full swing for its 2015 edition, asserted Aida Terrero, director for International Relations of the Education Ministry, cited on Monday by the Granma newspaper.

Over 2000 Cuban professors are currently working in 14 nations, while the island´s pedagogical work enjoys growing prestige, said Doctor Aida Terrero, International Relations director at the Cuban Education Ministry.

Cubans in this southern territory recalled the nearly four thousand victims of a hurricane that hit the island on November 9, 1932, considered the strongest natural disaster ever.

The first international course on the prevention and fighting against the Ebola virus in the Americas begins Monday at Havana´s Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Saturday afternoon with Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, President of the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, who is in Cuba heading a delegation invited by the National Assembly of the People's Power.

Argentinean physician Augusto Sola, president of the Iberian-American Society of Neonatology, highlighted on Friday Cuba's achievements in this branch of Medicine, supported mainly by genetic and prenatal programs.

A recent article published by Time magazine acknowledges that Cuban medical internationalism is a national priority on the island and that this is why Cuba is singularly prepared to fight the Ebola fever virus epidemic.

The European Union stressed the advantages that Cuba offers foreign investors given the high preparation of its labor, its key geographical situation, international recognition and image and its growing regional integration.

The Cuban portfolio of foreign investment offers entrepreneurs their participation in the management of sugar mills as a modality aimed at increasing sugar production quality and efficiency.

After six days of fruitful exchange among entrepreneurs and officials from over 60 nations of the world, the 32nd Havana International Trade Fairs will be closed during an awarding ceremony on Friday at the city's Conventions Hall.