 BBC News | US swimmer Diana Nyad half-way from Cuba to Florida BBC News US endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is more than half-way to Florida, in her attempt to become the first person to swim from Cuba without a shark cage. She had to call off her non-stop swim a year ago after a huge storm and following several jellyfish stings. |
India uses Arctic-Antarctic expedition to reach out to Latin America Times of India NEW DELHI: A 35,000 km overland expedition from Arctic to Antarctic is the latest enterprise by India to build ties with the resource-rich Latin America. Led by explorer Akhil Bakshi, the 4-month expedition will start this week at Dead Horse Creek on ... |
Timing is everything: Dodgers use Cuban connection to edge Padres Los Angeles Times It was Hollywood stuff, naturally, but on the Dodgers' first Cuban Heritage day, it was Puig who provided the winning run, drilling a sixth-inning solo homer Sunday to reward another brilliant pitching effort by Zack Greinke in the Dodgers' 2-1 victory ... |
Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment KVUE A day after President Barack Obama stepped back from his threat to launch an attack, Kerry says in a series of interviews on the Sunday TV news shows that the administration learned of the sarin (SA'-rihn) use through samples of hair and blood provided ... Obama in 2012: Taking 'military action unilaterally' in Syria would be 'mistake' |
 BBC News | Peru snow state of emergency extended to more regions BBC News The Peruvian government has extended to nine more regions a state of emergency called to cope with unusually cold weather and heavy snowfall. At least two people have died and 33,000 others have been affected by the cold spell, local officials say. |
US swimmer Nyad 'looking very good' after 1st night of Cuba-Florida swim ... Minneapolis Star Tribune HAVANA — U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad's team says she made it through her first night in the Straits of Florida with almost no sightings of poisonous jellyfish. A post on Nyad's blog says she's doing well and the crew is upbeat, though she ... |
Storm ends retired Cuban baseball stars' game in Florida The Globe and Mail What a political storm couldn't stop, a tropical one did. Thunder, lightning and flash flooding on Saturday rained out the first South Florida matchup between retired Cuban baseball players from both sides of the Florida Straits. The game between ... |
Tropical Storm Ends Face Off Between Retired Cuban Ballplayers And Exiles Fox News Latino Its decision came shortly after resistance from a small but vocal Miami-based group that has long opposed the communist administration of Cuban President Raul Castro and his brother, former President Fidel Castro. The first of the games was also ... |
Approaching Storms Threaten Diana Nyad's 5th, and Final, Attempt at Cuba ... SwimSwam Diana Nyad, who departed from Cuba Saturday on her 5th, and what she says is her final attempt, at swimming from Cuba to Key West, Florida, is currently under threats of an extreme lightning storm that sits just 4 miles away. In an update from her ... |
Storm ends retired Cuban baseball stars' Fla. game 7Online WSVN-TV Its decision came shortly after resistance from a small but vocal Miami-based group that has long opposed the administration of Communist Cuban President Raul Castro and former President Fidel Castro. The first of the games was also originally slated ... |
IC professors brave bureauracy in Cuba for research opportunity Jacksonville Journal-Courier one imagines them saying — they were able to continue their visit. “My first impression as we stepped into the hot, night air and I saw two old 1950s cars was, 'This is real. We are here.'” Zettler said. Travel to Cuba is severely restricted for ... |
 The Week Magazine | 10 things you need to know today: September 1, 2013 The Week Magazine President Obama postponed a military strike against the Syrian government in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack so he could seek authorization from Congress on Saturday. Since last ... Diana Nyad begins her final attempt at a Cuba-Florida swim |
GUEST COLUMN: Providing ammo: Ideas could fuel military action, even now in ... Tuscaloosa News (subscription) Today, Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, still runs Cuba. Raul is the leading member of the Cuban military establishment, a tough nut who supported his brother ruthlessly in the early 1960s with mass executions, the creation of a superb security system ... |
Storm ends Retired Cuban baseball stars' game against Miami exiles in Florida Brandon Sun Its decision came shortly after resistance from a small but vocal Miami-based group that has long opposed the administration of Communist Cuban President Raul Castro and former President Fidel Castro. The first of the games was also originally slated ... |
IC professors brave bureauracy in Cuba for research opportunity Jacksonville Journal-Courier In his career as a biology professor and orchid enthusiast, Lawrence Zettler has shared space with alligators and poisonous snakes to get glimpses, and whiffs, of his beloved specimens. But in early August, Zettler and fellow Illinois College professor ... |
Inside Diana Nyad's new Florida-Cuba swim strategy CBS News On Saturday, she will try to swim across the treacherous waters separating Cuba from Florida - an attempt she's failed to complete four times before. But now, she has a new strategy. At 64 years old, Nyad couldn't resist the call of the ocean one more ... |
Storm ends retired Cuban baseball stars' Fla. game 7Online WSVN-TV Its decision came shortly after resistance from a small but vocal Miami-based group that has long opposed the administration of Communist Cuban President Raul Castro and former President Fidel Castro. The first of the games was also originally slated ... |
Storm ends Retired Cuban baseball stars' game against Miami exiles in Florida Minneapolis Star Tribune Its decision came shortly after resistance from a small but vocal Miami-based group that has long opposed the administration of Communist Cuban President Raul Castro and former President Fidel Castro. The first of the games was also originally slated ... |
 ESPN | Photo blog: Diana Nyad's swim ESPN After a near-death experience after being stung nine times by poisonous box jellyfish last year -- once on the tongue for good measure -- you would think a swimmer would be hesitant to enter those same waters. But most swimmers aren't Diana Nyad. |
Woman to brave sharks, jellyfish and storms in final Cuba-Florida swim attempt Washington Times HAVANA — The Florida Strait, a dangerous stretch of sea full of sharks and jellyfish that is prone to sudden, violent storms, has stubbornly resisted Diana Nyad's repeated attempts to conquer it. Yet the Florida-raised endurance athlete was back in ... |
68 Cuba-trained doctors join health sector tomorrow Jamaica Observer A batch of 68 doctors, who finished training recently in Cuba, will be deployed into Jamaica's health sector starting tomorow. The doctors, all Jamaicans, represent the latest and largest batch of medical graduates to have been trained in the Socialist ... |
