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CDs of the week: Rihanna, Lady Gaga and 50 Cent

20.11.09
What our critics made of Rihanna, Lady Gaga and 50 Cent's new album.... more

A silly question with only three billion answers

14.10.09
What do women want? This question has given a title to countless books, studies, pamphlets and themed fancy dress parties over the years... more

JFK hijack suspect seized 40 years on

12.10.09
A man wanted for hijacking a flight out of New York 41 years ago has been arrested after flying back into the city from Cuba.... more

High kicks in Colombia

02.09.09
Reckon you can salsa? Jane Cornwell did, before she tried to cut it on the dance floors of Cali, where being a salsero is a way out of the ghetto... more

Pacino is spectacularly over the top in Scarface

21.08.09
Brian De Palma's 1983 version has Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a two-bit hood from Cuba who makes it big in the drug trade... more

Strawberry and Chocolate is still an important film

03.07.09
Made in 1994, when homosexuality was frowned upon in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s film seems tamer now than it did.... more

Cuba50 in all its glory at Victoria Park

22.06.09
Cuba50 tips its flat cap to the music nurtured by the island’s half-century-old revolution; the legendary Orquestra Aragon.... more

Taste of the high life on Boundary Rooftop

18.06.09
Playing a walk-on role in Sir Terence Conran's dream world at the Boundary Rooftop is such a treat. Worth paying up for.... more

Top headteacher held over £500,000 Cuba trip expenses

11.06.09
One of London's leading headteachers has been arrested over allegations of a £500,000 expenses fraud linked to a Cuban exchange programme... more

Cubans kick their heels in Havana Rakatan

07.05.09
Every now and then a dance show comes along that has such runaway enthusiasm that you bin the criticism. Havana Rakatan is such a show.... more

Not one to Shout about

30.04.09
Su Pollard is loud and the rest of the cast are game in Shout but with weak material there aren't a whole lot of options.... more

CDs of the week

24.04.09
Bob Dylan returns with his 33rd studio album, The Enemy reinvent themselves as rock gods and the Handsome Family get mellow.... more

Singing with your supper

15.04.09
Combine dining out with a live music set at some of London's top restaurants.... more

The secret home of convivial dining

14.04.09
There are not many chefs who will enter their dining room wearing a Dennis the Menace pinny, hold an unusually bounteous vegetable aloft and say: "Look at this broccoli! It's bloody massive!"... more

What else is new: Los Van Van

09.03.09
It’s not easy to sing, to really belt it out, while dancing as if on castors. But Los Van Van’s four lead vocalists deliver their epic Spanish-language songs with instinctive dexterity, backed by a crew of musicians with some cool moves of their own... more

Guantanamo 'torture' prisoner returns to UK

23.02.09
Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed returned to Britain after more than four years of detention by the US military... more

Foreign Office used private jet for Cuba trip

16.02.09
Four Foreign Office officials were sent to Cuba on a private jet to check on a terror suspect - at taxpayers' expense... more

Castro predicts his brother's revolution will go on

02.01.09
Raul Castro predicted that Cuba's revolution would survive another half-century as the communist government marked the 50th anniversary of its triumph... more

Anheuser sues suitor InBev

09.07.08
Budweiser brewer is asking a Delaware court to block the company's £23.4 billion takeover bid... more

Oil brings Cuba closer to USA

12.06.08
Trade between the US and Cuba may recommence as a major oil drill entices America... more

A thought-provoking look at Cuba

04.02.08
States of Exchange, the latest exhibition at the Iniva, features the work of six Cuban artists and deals with Cuba's relationship with the US.... more

The top 20 New Year's Eve parties

31.12.07
It's not too late to organise a big night out - whether it's a hot rave in Hoxton, a Brazilian party in Covent Garden or a dance in Mayfair.... more

Archive of a vanishing world

13.11.07
David Thurston is neither a drama seeker nor a war junkie and his work would inspire any photography class.... more

Snake hips and pit bulls in salsa heaven

18.06.07
The Carnival de Cuba has become one of Europe's biggest Latin events and enjoyed its third annual celebration in Southwark Park... more

Not Havana fabulous time

25.05.07
Havana Rakatan contains a strong African flavour and a feelgood display of Cuban grooves, says Sarah Frater. But it doesn't really work.... more

CDs of the week

17.11.06
There's a new Beatles album out that will make purists fume, Tom Waits releases 30 new songs on three exquisitely packaged CDs and former Busted boy Matt Willis goes solo with mixed results.... more

600 dancers hoping for West End success

06.11.06
More than 600 children, aged between nine and 14, descended on the Dance Attic in Fulham to battle for a place with a prestigious dance charity.... more

CDs of the week

20.10.06
Robbie Williams' seventh studio effort contains no fewer than five cover versions, Amy Winehouse plays it straight and Pedro Luis Ferrer draws on the rich traditions of Cuba.... more

Coolish Q from Cuba

06.09.06
The dancing is very special, but Don Quixote is a drama too and everyone has to act. Alas, the truth is that most of the dancers in this production do not, says Sarah Frater.... more

Farewell to Cuba

11.08.06
Andy Garcia's new film The Lost City is about the country he loved, and left, as a child and the star says he won't return to Cuba until its current leader Castro has gone.... more

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