A world-first study has demonstrated significant benefits to a premature baby's heart and brain function when held by the parent in skin-to-skin contact. Parent-infant skin-to-skin care (SSC) or kangaroo care, started in the late 1970s in Columbia when incubators to keep babies warm were not available. It is now widely recognized as a beneficial component of holistic care provided for pre-term infants.

Cuba Gooding Jr. -- who's got class, style and street knowledge by the pound -- rang in 51 with an awesome night of karaoke, and we gotta say ... he killed it. The actor celebrated his birthday by singing karaoke last weekend at Il Piccolo Verde in...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden likened President Trump to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro while speaking with Univision Orlando on Tuesday.

Nearly 40 countries across five continents have received Cuban doctors during the pandemic.

The Freshfields House is located right in ’s city centre, near the historic “Hansa-Quarter”. Its cubature references the traditional “Stapelhäuser” (historic warehouses) of the old Hanseatic city. The eight story new building provides 10,800 square meters of office space as well as generous retail spaces for shops on the ground floor.

Major storm heads to US after killing two dozen on the island of Hispaniola, 20 in Haiti and three in the Dominican Republic
Hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate the Gulf coast on Tuesday, as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam into Texas and Louisiana as a major storm with ferocious winds and deadly flooding.
Laura passed Cuba after killing nearly two dozen on the island of Hispaniola, 20 in Haiti and three in the Dominican Republic, where it knocked out power and caused intense flooding.

Both storms are expected to reach the same stretch of US coast, today and then later in the week
As two powerful storms menaced the US Gulf Coast on Monday, forecasters feared Marco would drive sea water to shore and unleash torrential rains just two days before Laura lashes the same region with potentially more powerful storm surge and winds.

• State could see first simultaneous hurricanes on record
• Dominican Republic and Haiti suffer severe flooding

Residents in low-lying coastal areas of Louisiana and Cuba were evacuating on Sunday, while roads turned to rivers in Haiti’s capital city, as twin hurricanes threatened the Caribbean and US Gulf Coast.

Ever since the novel coronavirus reached Cuba, a tall cardboard box with arms and legs can be seen tottering around a Havana suburb, popping into the bakery or butchers, or browsing the newspaper stand.

A Havana airport employee said that airport workers were alerted that a passenger jet had crashed on takeoff from José Martí International Airport.