Template:In the news
- Cyclone Batsirai (satellite image shown) makes landfall in Madagascar, displacing at least 69,000 people and leaving at least 29 others dead.
- Indian playback singer and composer Lata Mangeshkar dies at the age of 92.
- The Winter Olympics open in Beijing, China.
- Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi dies in a US military raid in Atme, Syria.
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