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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst is an adventure video game developed by Cyan Worlds and published by Ubisoft. Released in November 2003, the title is the fourth game in the Myst canon. Departing from previous games of the franchise, Uru takes place in the modern era and allows players to customize their onscreen avatars. Players use their avatars to explore the abandoned city of an ancient race known as the D'ni, uncover story clues and solve puzzles. Uru took five years and $12 million to complete. It was initially conceived as a multiplayer game, but the multiplayer component was delayed and eventually canceled, although an online version (Myst Online: Uru Live) was available in 2007 and 2008. Uru was not as well received as previous Myst titles. Critics admired the visuals and new features of the game but criticized the lack of multiplayer in the retail version and clunky controls. Uru sold poorly, while the first three games had sold millions of copies each. The game was a critical and commercial disappointment for Cyan, causing the company financial troubles; nevertheless, it has attracted a cult following. (Full article...)

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A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people.
NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
Fifty people are killed when a Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Kazan, Russia.
Abdulla Yameen is elected president of the Maldives.
Sachin Tendulkar (pictured) retires from all forms of cricket.
The prime ministers of Canada, India and Mauritius boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, over allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses.
A herd of 40 elephants is struck by a passenger train in Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

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November 21

1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
1918 – Polish troops and civilians began a three-day pogrom against Jews and Ukrainian Christians in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).
1962 – The Sino-Indian War ended after the Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew to the prewar Line of Actual Control, returning all the territory they had captured during the conflict.
1996 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, killed 33 people and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed.
2006 – Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel (pictured), a vocal critic of Syria's military presence in and political domination of Lebanon, was assassinated in Jdeideh.

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The Black-veined White (Aporia crataegi) is a species of butterfly found through much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The specimen seen here was photographed in Germany.

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