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Cuban migrants held for ransom in Mexico rescued, government says

Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation's Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.

Delivering them from poverty

About 1700 teachers, healers and advocates for the poor, the victims of inequity and discrimination, assembled for the biggest UN event ever held in Australia.

The gym will totally still be there after you finish that creme brulee.

Japanese BENIHANA VILLAGE Las Vegas Hilton, 732-5111. Japanese tabletop cooking at its finest. The chefs deliver great steaming-hot food, as well as an entertaining show.

In Haiti's south, aid, health care hard to come by for quake survivors

CAYES-JACMEL, Haiti (CNS) -- Hyppolite Lappe, an agronomics student, stood in a long line at a health clinic run by American volunteers at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish. His elderly mother was by his side.

Review: Cuban tycoon thought he could rein in Castro

The glamorous, slightly risque picture many of us have of prerevolutionary Cuba comes from the movies or the theater. Havana is the racy, romantic getaway where the prim and proper Sarah Brown begins to fall for the raffish charms of the high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls."