By Matthew Hay Brown and Nick Madig, The Baltimore Sun Feb. 20--Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader who brought communism to the Western Hemisphere, vexing U.S. policymakers for nearly a half- century, resigned yesterday as president of Cuba.

By Jennifer Skalka and Matthew Hay, The Baltimore Sun Oct. 22--As a teenager, Michael S. Steele was a natural on the stage. Tall and handsome, with a dazzling smile, he won parts in high school, college and summer-stock theater that allowed him to be the central figure, the star.

A state-of-the art medical teaching and learning centre in Aberdeen will put the city at the forefront of training medical students and health professionals, it has been claimed.