Los Angeles - Nadya Suleman has brought home the last of the octuplets she delivered in January, uniting her 14 young kids at home for the first time. Suleman, 33, brought home her son Jonah Monday night to the new four-bedroom home she moved into last month. Jonah had to stay in hospital longer than his siblings for surgical work on his cleft lip. All the babies had required extended hospital stays for monitoring and to allow them to gain enough weight to be brought home.

Havana - Fidel Castro demanded Tuesday that President Barack Obama put an end to the decades-old embargo of Cuba, in the first official reaction from Havana to Obama's move to end US restrictions on travel and remittances by Cuban Americans. "Not a word was said of the blockade, which is the most cruel of all measures," the former Cuban president said in a piece published Tuesday under his name in Cuban state media.

The White House announced moves on Monday to lift all restrictions on Cuban Americans travelling and sending money back to their home country as part of a much-anticipated reversal of US policies toward Cuba.

New York - US investment bank Goldman Sachs said Tuesday it would raise 5 billion dollars in new capital through the offering of 40.6 million new shares of stock. The funds would be used to repay part of the 10 billion dollars in government loans the firm received in October.

Goldman Sachs surprised analysts with quarterly profits announced late Monday that rose 13 per cent to 1.7 billion dollars in the first quarter despite the global financial crisis. Other major banks and investment firms are to report quarterly earnings in the coming days.

Washington - President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the government's efforts to pull the US economy out of a devastating recession were beginning to show signs of progress. "By no means are we out of the woods just yet. But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers of hope," Obama said in prepared remarks released by the White House ahead of a speech on the economy, picking up on the more upbeat tone he first sounded last week.

Dr. Bohdan Pomahac of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, the surgeon who led the country's second-ever face transplant operation said he is "cautiously optimistic" over the recovery of the patient and that "so far he is doing very, very well."

Pomahac and his team in a 17 hour surgery Thursday replaced the man's nose, palate, upper lip, and some skin, muscles and nerves with those of a dead donor. He added that the man who was severely injured in a freak accident several years ago has so far chosen to keep his identity a secret, is recovering as expected.

According to a new study Black patients suffering from lung cancer are less likely than white patients to receive recommended chemotherapy and surgery. In 2002 disparities in lung cancer treatments were similar to what was seen in the early 1990's despite efforts to decrease the difference in treatment.