Castro: My days are numbered

Ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he doubted he would live to see the end of Barack Obama’s four-year US presidential term and instructed officials to start making decisions without him.

In an online column called 'Reflections of Comrade Fidel', Castro, 82, suggested his days were numbered, saying Cuban officials “shouldn’t feel bound by my occasional reflections, my state of health or my death”.