The upcoming hurricane season which begins June 1st until November 30th is predicted to be normal to active although Cuba will remain prepared for any contingency.

Lawyers from over 27 nations of the world are meeting at the 8th International Forum on Justice and Law, underway till Thursday in the Cuban capital.

As part of the First Havana Design Biennal, academics, researchers and designers are gathering in their first international congress at local Conventions Hall.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, received Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, who in on an official visit to Cuba.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, received Professor Kane Boubacar, Minister of Health of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and special envoy, who conveyed to Army General Raul Castro a message from Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

Meteoro 2016, a series of nationwide drills aimed at preparing the Island in case of disasters, held this last weekend was a success, according to officials.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez will meet on Monday with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel García-Margallo, who is paying his second official visit to Cuba.

Phycho-ballet, a genuinely Cuban therapeutic and cultural method, has been extended to 17 countries in Latin America and Europe, asserted today in this capital its director and founder, Georgina Fariñas.

Representatives of Cuba and the United States will meet in this capital on Monday, May 16, to take stock of progress in the process towards normalization of ties, announced at a press conference Gustavo Machin, deputy director general of the Cuban Foreign Ministry's United States Department.

In the Third National Meeting of Students of Pedagogical Schools, underway in the eastern city of Camaguey, participants said Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro is a source of inspiration for their teaching vocation.

The latest dry season in Cuba (November 2015-April 2016) ended with precipitations averaging 414.7 milimeters, some 24 percent above historical figures.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban first vice president, assessed as an investment that will rescue the mining tradition of the municipality of Minas de Matahambre the Castellanos Project running at that site of this Cuban province.

Cuba ended 2015 with an estimated 11 million 239,004 inhabitants, only 727 people more than the previous year, for a growth rate of 0.06 per one thousand inhabitants.

The use of new seeds created at the National Research Institute of Tropical Viandas (INIVT by its Spanish acronym) translated in an increase of more than 82 115 tons of food, at no additional cost, in the last five years in Cuba

The fishing company of the central Cuban province of Villa Clara caught and processed more fish of freshwater species than planned, showing in the first three months of this year the consolidation of the good results of 2015