Understand the various costs involved with taking a trip to Cuba, including vaccination costs, airfare, tour costs and converting money to Cuban currency.

A glass wall separated nine-year-old Mercedes Dash from her parents at Havana’s international airport. Clutching her new doll as she waved goodbye, Dash boarded a plane bound for Miami. For all she knew, she’d be back in Cuba in a few days. That was January 25, 1962. Mercedes Dash still hasn’t gone home.

The sight was so unlikely that some Cubans could scarcely believe it: a US secretary of state lecturing their Communist government about democracy and human rights on state television.

How wild did things get? Secret missives, the pope, and artificial insemination wild. By Peter Kornbluh and William H. Leogrande.

Watched over by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Marines raised the American flag at the embassy in Cuba for the first time in 54 years on Friday, symbolically ushering in an era of renewed diplomatic relations

Now that Cuba and the United States have restored full diplomatic ties, what will it take to lift sanctions impeding business and travel?

A vintage car with U.S. flags drives by the U.S. embassy in Havana. The United States and Cuba formally resumed diplomatic relations, as the Cuban flag was raised at the U.S. State Department in a historic gesture toward ending decades of hostility between the Cold War foes.

More than a half century of Cold War and lingering enmity came to an abrupt but quiet end on Monday as the United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations.

The BBC's Will Grant travels to La Gloria in Cuba, where US settlers established a colony in 1900 of which little more than its gravestones remains today.

Director Francis Ford Coppola was reflecting on his brush with Fidel Castro, the blandishments to make another gangster film, and the pressure of borrowing at 29 percent interest to shoot "Apocalypse Now."

The world's largest cruise company, Carnival Corp, says it has received approval from the US government to offer trips to Cuba from Miami.

Will Americans “ruin” Havana? By Shona Sanzgiri.

With the recent thaw in diplomatic relations between Cuba and U.S., it won't be long before MLB franchises establish schools on the island.

Cuba’s boxing culture. An excerpt from “The Dominio Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba” by Brin-Jonathan Butler.

More widespread Internet in Cuba looked likely to happen back in December, and it arrived a short while later, but only in a very limited fashion. Half a year later, though, and things are changing again: the insular nation is about to expand the region that has Internet access by rolling out 36 WiFi hotspots in various places. In addition, the cost to get online is going to decrease, which is one of the biggest barriers currently.

The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago.

With Raul Castro reforming the island’s government and Barack Obama beginning to normalize relations with the United States, Cuba is at the threshold of a new era. A vibrant culture that’s stagnated economically for decades is about to be opened to our modern communications era, one of ubiquitous connectivity and constant contact. Google officials visited in March to discuss connectivity, and Airbnb recently opened its business to the country’s existing network of...

The United States and Cuba appear to be edging closer to an agreement to restore full diplomatic ties, with President Raúl Castro of Cuba saying Tuesday that his country was ready to exchange ambassadors once it was formally removed this month from the American government’s list of states sponsoring terrorism.

Cuba has for several years had a promising therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer. The 55-year trade embargo led by the US made sure that Cuba was mostly where it stayed. Until—maybe—now. The Obama administration has, of course, been trying to normalize relations with the island nation.

Raul Castro is a huge fan of Pope Francis, it turns out – so much so that the Cuban President has said he could be persuaded to return to the Catholic Church.