Beyond the public animosity, stark statements and a trade embargo, there is another side to US-Cuba relations: exploratory missions, discreet negotiations and hands extended - in hotel hallways, airport waiting rooms and even the Vatican.
Five days before arriving in Havana, US President Barack Obama lifted some of the travel, trade and financial restrictions on Cuba.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide said on Saturday it has signed three hotel deals in Cuba, a first for a US hospitality company since 1959 on the island.
Supporters of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called mass street rallies on Friday in her defense, counterattacking in a political crisis that threatens to drive her from office.
The largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the United States kicked off on Thursday in New York City, and for the first time in decades, gay activists were not decrying it as an exercise in exclusion.
Egypt has unearthed further evidence that a secret chamber, believed by some to be the lost burial site of Queen Nefertiti, may lie behind King Tutankhamun's tomb, Egypt's antiquities minister said on Thursday.
Last May, as the first cases of Zika were being detected in Brazil, cities at the frontlines of the epidemic stopped receiving government shipments of insecticide to kill mosquitoes.
Turkey's prime minister raised hopes of a deal with EU leaders to help stem the influx of migrants into Europe, but France and Germany warned of difficult talks as both sides grapple with how to send refugees back from Greece.
Former president Pervez Musharraf, who faces charges of treason and murder, has left Pakistan for treatment abroad.
Iraq's only music and ballet school has survived decades of war, sanctions and dictatorship, but now faces a funding crisis due to low oil prices and the costly war against the Islamic State group.
Health professionals and campaigners on Thursday stepped up pressure on the New Zealand government to introduce a sugar tax, following the surprise announcement of such a tax in the United Kingdom.
More than three years after a botched fresco restoration by an octogenarian painter became a major tourist attraction for a northern Spanish town, local officials looking to inject new life into the phenomenon opened a center on Wednesday that celebrates the fresco.
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