Havana, Cuba - Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, founder of the New Song Movement together with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola, received on Wednesday a Latin Grammy Award to musical excellence from the Latin Recording Academy, for his important contributions in the field of music.

Cuba-The popular puppet theater company Las Estaciones started the performances of two of their most emblematic plays, based on texts by Cuban author Dora Alonso and Italian Carlo Collodi.

New York - Cuban Lizt Alfonso''s Company will become in the first Cuban dance group to perform in the Latin Grammy awards next Thursday, was announced today in a press release.

According to Alfonso, her company was recently invited to participate in the ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and will share the stage with popular Latin American artists.

New York-Ballet Lizt Alfonso promises today to heat up the cold New York night with its show Cuba Vibra!, a mix of contagious rhythms of the Caribbean island performing at The New Victory Theater, in Manhattan.

Paris - Several world leaders expressed at UNESCO their rejection to violence and extremism in the Leaders Forum concluding today at the headquarters of the institution in this capital.

Havana - The nine Cuban feature-films competing in the 37th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema were announced yesterday here by Roberto Smith de Castro, head of the Cuban film institute.

Smith, president of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC), said that out of the nine films, four were produced by this institution, while the remaining five are independent films.