Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba today, blowing buildings to rubble and sending waves surging over homes.

Hurricane Ike roared on to Cuba today after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.

Hurricane Ike barrelled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm today, prompting an exodus of tourists and residents from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.

A Puerto Rican woman has accused the premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands of raping her.