London, October 13 : Former Cuban President Fidel Castro sees it as a "pure miracle" that U. S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has not been assassinated as yet.

He believes that most people in America cannot accept the idea of a black man winning the White House race.

"Profound racism exists in the United State,” the Telegraph quoted him as writing about the U. S. presidential race on the website Cubadebate.

New York, Sept 18 : Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has slept with 35,000 women in his 82 years of life, according to an upcoming documentary.

"He slept with at least two women a day for more than four decades - one for lunch and one for supper,” the New York Post quoted an ex-Castro official named "Ramon" as telling filmmaker Ian Halperin.

“Sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast," the official said.

"I don''t think he would have stayed on as long as he did if not for all the incredible women he had access to as president,” the official added.

Havana  - Hurricane Gustav hit Cuba like an atomic bomb last weekend, said the island's ailing former leader Fidel Castro.

In a commentary published under his name in the Communist Party daily Granma on Wednesday, Castro said the storm caused damages estimated at many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This amount would be needed only to satisfy the most elementary needs of the population, the 82-year-old former president said under the headline "A Nuclear Blow."

Havana  - Cuba's retired revolutionary leader Fidel Castro greeted the liberation