Russia's space agency chief, Anatoly Perminov, said on Wednesday that Moscow is ready to help Cuba develop its own space center after talks in Caracas with Venezuelan and Cuban officials, Itar-Tass news agency reported.

By Casey Woods, The Miami Herald Jan. 22--Republican presidential candidate John McCain began his battle for the Florida primary on Monday in the well-trodden political territory of Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana.

--moscow President Vladimir Putin said that the proposed US missile defence system in eastern Europe had similarities to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. plan for a missile shield in Europe is akin to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

MAFRA, Portugal. Oct 26 (Interfax) - U.S. plans to deploy its missile defense sites in Europe have been compared by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba in the 1960s, which led to what was later called the Cuban Missile Crisis.