The shortest route from Cuba to the U.S. is 90 miles ... tension rising as South America narrows toward the isthmus. They ride motorcycles to a boat, cross an inlet in a two-hour trip, switch ...

Observed at 02:00, Sunday 9 March BBC Weather in association with MeteoGroup, external All times are Cuba Daylight Time (America/Havana, GMT-4) unless otherwise stated.

Cuba reconnected its national electrical grid and restored power to most of the capital Havana late on Sunday, energy officials said, nearly two days after an island-wide outage knocked out power ...