Cuba's president Fidel Castro has stepped down from office. The iconic revolutionary leader has been battling poor health for some time and had already handed over day to day control of the country to his brother Raul. Al Jazeera's Owen Fay takes a look at his 49 years in power.

Castro -from a wealthy landowning family
before the revolution -and now one of the
very richest men on earth!
-Now that's what I call a revolution!