Armed conflicts and attacks

• Charlie Hebdo shooting
  • Thousands of police and military personnel prepare to secure a Paris unity rally with up to a million people expected to attend. (Daily Mail)
  • An arson attack on the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, causes no injuries but leads to two arrests. (Reuters via DNA)
• Boko Haram
  • More female suicide bombers, this time two, and again each believed to be around 10 years old, kill themselves and three others at a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum, Nigeria. (Reuters via News24)

Disasters and accidents

• Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
  • Divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the crashed jet. (AP)
• The death toll from the Karachi traffic accident rises to 62. (Indian Express)

Politics and elections

• Croatian presidential election, 2014–15
  • Former diplomat and foreign minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović from the Croatian Democratic Union narrowly defeats incumbent president Ivo Josipović and will become the first female president of Croatia on February 18, 2015. (BBC)
• Sri Lankan presidential election, 2015
  • The new Sri Lankan government announces that it will investigate allegations of a coup attempt by Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a bid to retain power after being defeated at the polls. (Deutsche Welle)

Science and technology

• Public photographs become available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after the experimental recovery attempt of the first stage fails and crash-lands on a floating platform in the SpaceX CRS-5 resupply mission. (Space Flight Now)