The city of Vancouver has ordered the removal of a mural hanging outside a Downtown Eastside gallery depicting the Olympic rings as four sad faces and one smiley face.

While this removal was ordered under the city's graffiti by-law, a sign bylaw in Vancouver has faced heavy criticism. First passed in July, it was accused of stifling debate by giving police and city officials broad power to seize signs and placards, with one civil libertarian saying the city was at risk of becoming "Beijing 2.0."

An attacker hurled a statuette at Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, striking the leader in the face at the end of a rally on Sunday and leaving the stunned 73-year-old media mogul with a bloodied mouth, police said.

The attack occurred after Berlusconi had just finished delivering a long, vigorous speech at the rally to thousands of applauding supporters from his Freedom People party in the square outside the cathedral.

MySpace Music bought "certain assets" from imeem, and they do not include imeem's liability to more than 110,000 independent artists with Snocap storefronts, according to a source with inside knowledge of the deal.

One source with inside knowledge of the deal said MySpace Music's rushed purchase of imeem's assets forced it to "leave behind anything that either had explicit liability or potential liability," including Snocap and its debts to thousands of independent artists and bands.

The congressmen are outraged that sites like Cryptome and Wikileaks republished the manual after it was posted online by a government contractor working for the Transportation Security Administration.

The 93-page manual provided details about which passengers are more likely to be targeted for secondary screening at airports, who is exempt from screening, TSA procedures for screening foreign dignitaries and CIA-escorted passengers, and extensive instructions for calibrating metal detectors and screening for traces of explosive materials.

EU leaders have so far failed to agree how much aid the bloc will give to developing nations to tackle the effects of global warming.

"We have called on the developed countries to reduce emissions by 25-40% by 2020, and expect developing countries to achieve cuts of between 15% and 30%," he said.

AT&T wants its iPhone users to use less wireless data, and it plans to introduce new pricing models to curb users' data usage as it tries to keep up with growing demand.

AT&T has been reluctant to admit that there is a problem, but recently, the company has acknowledged that problems exist.

Unlike voice service, which is already tiered, wireless-data service is charged at an all-you-can-eat flat rate.

For now, it looks as if AT&T will try to slow the growth with hefty prices. It will be interesting to see if its competitors follow suit.

Using anesthetized pigs, the doctors are testing various compounds, some containing hydrogen sulfide, to find one that can safely keep the hemorrhaging animals "as close to death as possible."

A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and - hopefully - as good as new.

Eric Schmidt suggests you alter your scandalous behavior before you complain about his company invading your privacy.

The generous explanation for Schmidt's statement is that he's revolutionized his thinking since 2005, when he blacklisted CNET for publishing info about him gleaned from Google searches, including salary, neighborhood, hobbies and political donations.

Schmidt's philosophy is clear with Bartiromo in the clip below: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

As of Saturday, the balloons are up in the air. If you don't have a team yet, here are some places to report a sighting.

Both DARPABalloon.com and this MIT group are proposing to gather a huge number of participants, and rather than give each contributor a measly cut, the 40 grand will be donated to charity.

The 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new movies and selling bootleg copies.

She was actually taping parts of her sister's surprise birthday party celebrated at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont.

Tumpach was arrested after theater managers insisted on pressing charges, he said. She was charged with criminal use of a motion picture exhibition.

There's footage of she and her relatives singing to her sister, she said. "We sang 'Happy Birthday' to her in the theater," Tumpach said.