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Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios and released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles, and Microsoft Windows. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman and written by Paul Dini with Paul Crocker and Sefton Hill, it is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. Incarcerated in Arkham City, a massive new super-prison enclosing the decaying urban slums of fictional Gotham City, Batman must uncover the secret behind the sinister scheme "Protocol 10", orchestrated by the facility's warden, Hugo Strange. The game's leading characters are predominantly voiced by actors from the DC Animated Universe, with Kevin Conroy reprising his role as Batman and Mark Hamill as the Joker. Using third-person perspective, the game focuses on Batman's combat and stealth abilities, detective skills, and gadgets for combat and exploration. The game was praised for its narrative, characters and world designs and for Batman's combat and navigation abilities. It was tied for the highest-rated video game of 2011 according to review aggregator Metacritic, and was the recipient of several awards. (Full article...)

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The Coalition of the Radical Left wins a plurality of seats in the Greek legislative election and forms a coalition government with the Independent Greeks.
Sumo wrestler Hakuhō Shō (pictured) wins a record-breaking 33rd makuuchi championship.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah dies and is succeeded by his half brother, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, and the Yemeni cabinet resign after a coup d'état in Yemen by Shia insurgents.
At least 15 people are killed in protests against President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day; Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom and various commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz (1945)

447 – An earthquake destroyed large sections of the Walls of Constantinople.
1142 – Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.
1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance pictured) in Oświęcim, Poland.
1980 – With the assistance of Canadian government officials, six American diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to Zurich, Switzerland.

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The entrance to the harbor of Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, a major town and island in the international Lake Constance. The current harbor in Lindau was built in the mid-19th century, together with the Bavarian Lion (left) and the Lindau Lighthouse (right). The harbor entrance serves as a tourist attraction.

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