Havana - The Puerto Rican singer William Omar Landron, known artistically as Don Omar, expressed his solidarity on Monday with the Cuban people, after the tornado that affected Havana on Sunday, January 27.

Paris - UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay awarded the Jose Marti International Prize to the outstanding Cuban intellectual Roberto Fernandez Retamar, diplomatic sources announced Monday.

Paris - Jose Marti''s thought enlightens those who dream of a better world, highlighted Monday in France during a tribute to Cuba''s National Hero, on the 166th anniversary of his birth.

Juan Rodríguez Cabrera highlighted the presence of the new titles, new reduced prices of the texts, the offer of special projects as tiny books, calendars, maps and didactic materials, included the demanded technical books about medicine and art issues and a higher presence of the digital literature, are among other attractive proposals.

We must read José Martí’s Our America over and again, especially in these times, as it continues to surprise us with ideas as eloquent and relevant as this: “The incapacity lies not in the emerging country, which demands forms that are appropriate to it and a grandeur that is useful, but in leaders who try to rule unique nations of a singular and violent composition, with laws inherited from four centuries of free practice in the United States and nineteen centuries of monarchy in France.”

London - The Royal Ballet of Birmingham (United Kingdom) has selected Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta as its new director, according to a press release from Acosta Dance, a Havana-based company founded by the artist.