Castro says well enough to meet dignitaries
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he has   put the worst of his health crisis behind him and will be able   to receive foreign dignitaries in private during a summit of   developing nations next week.
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Cubans are increasingly talking in the past tense about Fidel Castro, the man who governed their lives for 47 years.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was not well enough to attend the closing ceremony on Friday for his 80th birthday but Cuba's vice president said he was getting better and would continue leading the communist island.
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Fidel Castro is stronger, obviously improving and increasingly getting back to work, Cuba's Foreign Minister said Monday.
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Fidel Castro's older brother Ramon said Friday the ailing Cuban leader is recovering well from surgery six months ago, joining his other brother Raul in a growing number of upbeat assessments.
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HAVANA -- Fidel Castro looked frail but alert and even playful in a series of official photographs taken during a meeting with Brazil's president on Tuesday, the first images of the ailing Cuban leader released in about three months.
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Cuban government officials say that leader Fidel Castro is not dying, does not have cancer, and will return to public life, U.S. Congress members visiting the communist country said on Sunday.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro is walking,   talking and being briefed, according to a statement published   on Saturday in the Communist Party daily, Granma, a day before   his 80th birthday.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro is making a satisfactory recovery from intestinal surgery, says his son.
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According to the official line from Cuba, Fidel Castro is very much alive - but that has not stopped fevered speculation in Miami, writes Tracy McVeigh.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro delights parliament as he walks for the first time since a bad fall last October.
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Cuba's interim president, Raul Castro, says his brother Fidel is healthy enough to run for parliament in January.
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Venezuela's ambassador to Cuba says Fidel Castro is gaining strength and has begun eating again.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday and said he was "incredibly lucid" and healthy enough to resume his political role in Cuba.
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Acting President Raul Castro made a surprise appearance Thursday at the opening of Havana's annual international book fair &#151; an event his ailing brother Fidel had often attended in past years.
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Hundreds of flag-waving people rallied in Cuba's capital on Tuesday to publicly declare their support for ailing leader Fidel Castro, as assurances he was recovering began to ease Cubans' worries about their long-ruling leader.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro's health is improving because he is now eating, the ambassador to Cuba from ally Venezuela said on Thursday, without making clear when Castro had been unable to eat.