Cuba frees the president of a Canadian transport company, Cy Tokmakjian, after more than three years in jail on bribery charges.

A ceremony is held in New York's Harlem to honour black civil rights leader Malcolm X at the site where he was assassinated 50 years ago.

Turkish troops reportedly cross the Syrian border and pass through Kobane to relieve the garrison at the Suleyman Shah tomb - a Turkish enclave.

Birdman beats Boyhood to the top prize at the Independent Spirit awards, a day before the films go up against each other at the Oscars.

Rebels in eastern Ukraine agree to begin to pull back heavy weapons from the frontline, a Russian general involved in the truce deal says.

Australia's security hotline had 18 calls about a self-styled cleric just days before his deadly attack on a Sydney cafe in December, a report says.

Police in the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives arrest opposition leader and former President Mohamed Nasheed on terror charges.

A bomb kills at least two people and injures 10 at a patriotic march in Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, as the ceasefire in the east takes hold.