Fidel Castro, the world's longest ruling head of state, turns 79 Saturday, celebrating a key political and legal victory over his enemies in exile after a U.S. appeals court ordered a new trial ...

Following a televised speech in October 2004, Cuban leader Fidel Castro fell from the stage, shattering his left knee, breaking his left arm, and leaving Cuba’s people breathless.

Fidel Castro also makes a surprise appearance. Cuba's ruling Communist Party elects President Raul Castro and First Vice President Jose Machado Ventura to top posts. IE 11 is not supported.

But the chattering ruling class of Havana, ... No one—absolutely no one—in the last half century has ever told Fidel Castro what to do or how long he could speak.

IN CONTRAST to his long life of violence, both verbal and physical, Fidel Castro's demise at 90 was, apparently, peaceful. Cuba's communist dictator from 1959 until illness obliged him to hand ...

Fidel Castro turned 90 on August 13 ... “Soon I will be 90,” Castro said during a rare public appearance in Havana in April at a meeting of the island’s ruling Communist Party.

Fidel Castro's death could open the door to Cuba's entry into the community of nations. But Raul Castro has shown no signs of wanting rapid change. Will economic need spur political reform?

Convalescing leader Fidel Castro on Monday linked last week’s deadly hijacking attempt to an American court’s decision to free anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles on bond.

Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution.

Fidel Castro burst on the world scene in 1959, spawning the very image of a revolutionary with his scruffy beard, rifle and cigar, ruling Cuba for a half-century while rankling 11 U.S. presidents ...

Fidel Castro, then president of Cuba, and his brother Raúl, then vice president, in Havana in 1978. ... but he is leaving the day-to-day ruling of Cuba to President Díaz-Canel.

Fidel Castro turned 90 on August 13 ... “Soon I will be 90,” Castro said during a rare public appearance in Havana in April at a meeting of the island’s ruling Communist Party.