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ECLAC says nine million more are in poverty, Dominica PM names 18 December election date - and other stories. (BBC)

How engaged are the Caribbean and its diaspora, and how engaged should they be? (BBC)

Obama engages Cuban blogger (BBC)

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Gayle leaves tour for ill mother (BBC)

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Windies women win series (BBC)

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Race quotas row in Brazil (BBC)

Body Clocks (BBC)

Targeting Hip Hop (BBC)

IBM in Bromont, Quebec, for the last year. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits from insurance giant ... (caribbeanherald.com)

San Juan, PR (Sports Network) - The 21st-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Boston University Terriers will meet this afternoon in the final round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. Georgia Tech has play... (caribbeanherald.com)

San Juan, PR (Sports Network) - The championship game of the Puerto Rico Tip- Off pits the fifth-ranked Villanova Wildcats against the Ole Miss Rebels. Ole Miss has won all four of its game so far thi... (caribbeanherald.com)

A 62-year-old man was rescued from the ocean about 20 miles southeast of Miami early Sunday after he fell overboard from the cruise ship Silver Shadow. Ronald Shulman went overboard about 3 a.m. , ... (caribbeanherald.com)

Palm Beach County man fears his life savings — $135,000 in a Rothstein law firm escrow account, money to close on a condo — is gone. Rothstein, 47, a Fort Lauderdale attorney whose cons... (caribbeanherald.com)

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. The driver of the 2008 Jeep, Patricia Unruh, 57, of Stuart, braked and swerved to the left when she saw Vidovich, but could not avoid the collision, deputies sai... (caribbeanherald.com)

Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on September 24, 2009 in New York City. (Michael Nagle, Getty Images) CARACAS, Venezuela (... (caribbeanherald.com)

Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on September 24, 2009 in New York City. (Michael Nagle, Getty Images) CARACAS, Venezuela (... (caribbeanherald.com)

Coconut Grove in the predawn hours of Saturday morning, less than a block away from another reported rape earlier this month. The woman in her mid-20s was waiting for her boyfriend in her car on Ma... (caribbeanherald.com)

NAGOYA — Japan suffered its first defeat at the men’s World Grand Champions Cup on Sunday, losing to Cuba in straight sets. The loss came after Poland’s win over Iran earlier in the... (caribbeanherald.com)

High tides recently cut off the Boca Grande section of Cartagena, in Colombia. Scientists say Latin American cities are at higher risk because sea levels will rise most near the equator. (caribbeanherald.com)

WASHINGTON | At a tempestuous hearing, one House member after another criticized a growing campaign to lift the ban on American tourists traveling to Cuba. (caribbeanherald.com)

There's nothing I hate worse than a super blue drink. It's unnatural. It's off-putting, and it usually tastes terrible. Landing in Providenciales, the most populated island in the Turks and Caicos, I ... (caribbeanherald.com)

Venezuela during the coming months.Chavez read aloud a letter to the 83-year-old former Cuban leader during a televised speech Saturday night, saying "Venezuela awaits you." Chavez proposed that Castr... (caribbeanherald.com)

HAVANA: Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said Saturday it is holding a military exercise next week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.... (caribbeanherald.com)