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Cuba Legalizes Purchase and Sale Of Private Property

Cuba announced Thursday it is allowing the purchase and sale of real estate for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes ushered in by President Raul Castro. The change follows the legalization in October of the purchase and sale of cars.

SHE DID IT: Diana Nyad Completes Historic Cuba to Florida Swim

This time, neither storm, jellyfish, nausea nor utter fatigue could keep 64-year-old endurance swimmer Diana Nyad from achieving her lifelong ambition of conquering the Straits of Florida. Nyad today became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, willing her way to a Key West beach, victorious on her fifth try in 35 years.

Cuba Throws Lifeline to Sea Turtles

Cuba has thrown a lifeline to the Caribbean's endangered and critically endangered marine turtles with a government resolution ending all harvesting of marine turtles. Such a resolution, ending Cuba's long standing harvest of 500 critically endangered hawksbill turtles a year, has been sought by conservationists for more than a decade. It will benefit turtles hatching […]