| Fri, 18 May 2012 Oil well in Cuba comes up dry, raises questions about future exploration
| Cuba’s dreams of an oil bonanza suffered a tough but possibly temporary setback Friday when the Spanish Repsol company confirmed it hit a dry hole when it drilled a well off the island’s northwest coast. | The dry well will put more pressure on Cuba ... | Repsol: Exploratory oil well off Cuba comes up dry
| An exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday, a disappointment for a cash-strapped nation hoping for an economic lifeline. | Trial and error is par for the course in oi... | Cuban president's daughter to meet with gay groups
| SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro is planning to meet with San Francisco's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community during a U.S. visit next week that is being opposed by some Cuban-American politicians. | The San Francisco LGBT Center s... | CPC delegation leaves for Brazil, Peru, Cuba
| BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) left Beijing on Saturday morning for good-will visits to Brazil, Peru and Cuba. | The delegation was led by Hu Chunhua, Communist Party chief of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regi... | Cuban president's daughter to meet with gay groups
| SAN FRANCISCO — Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro is planning to meet with San Francisco's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community during a U.S. visit next week that is being opposed by some Cuban-American politicians. | The San Francisco LGBT Center ... | Cuban president's daughter to meet with gay groups
| SAN FRANCISCO — Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro is planning to meet with San Francisco's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community during a U.S. visit next week that is being opposed by some Cuban-American politicians. | The San Francisco LGBT Center ... | Repsol: Exploratory oil well off Cuba comes up dry
| PETER ORSI | Associated Press= HAVANA (AP) — An exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday, a disappointment for a cash-strapped nation hoping for an economic lifeline... | American Accents Being Heard on the Malecón
| HAVANA — In the echoing cobbled walkway of an 18th-century fort that is home to part of the 11th Havana Biennial, an insistent clang emanates from an artwork in which a bronze bird continually hits a boat propeller with its beak. Behind that noise floats the mel... | Cuba prevails over Japan in World League volleyball
| Hamamatsu — The Japan men's volleyball team got off to a losing start in Pool A action in the World League on Friday night, going down in straight sets to Cuba. | Led by Leon Venero Wilfredo's 19 points, the Cubans, ranked fifth in the world, prevailed 25-22, 28... | This week's new theatre and dance
The Hard Boiled Egg And The Wasp The Hard Boiled Egg And The Wasp, London | Music hall star Dan Leno is the star of a new musical being tried out on the theatre fringe this week. Leno was a comedy superstar of his time – from 1886 until his death in 1904 – who pione... | |
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