Castro 'walking, talking and working'

Cuban leader Fidel Castro is sitting up, walking, talking and even working a little during his recovery from the surgery that forced him to step aside temporarily as president, the Communist Party’s newspaper said today.

The report on the front page of the Granma newspaper was the most optimistic report so far on the Cuban leader since his announcement at the end of July that he had undergone intestinal surgery and was temporarily ceding his powers to his brother Raul, the No 2 in the government.