Brussels - The European Union is to send a fleet of frigates and spotter aircraft to the sea off Somalia in order to combat piracy there, the bloc's foreign ministers decided Monday.
The decision, taken by ministers at their regular monthly meeting in Brussels, gives the green light to the five to seven frigates plus support aircraft of "Operation Atalanta" to deploy to the Horn of Africa around mid-December, officials said.
Rostock, Germany - Second-division Hansa Rostock Monday sacked coach Frank Pagelsdorf, a day after fellow-relegated club MSV Duisburg dismissed coach Rudi Bommer.
All three clubs relegated from Germany's top-flight Bundesliga last season have now parted company with their coaches, after Nuremberg dismissed Thomas von Heesen at the end of August.
Pagelsdorf, who had won promotion with Rostock in 1995 and 2007, confirmed at a news conference that he had been dismissed. A successor is yet to be named.
It follows four games without a win which have left Rostock in 12th place, three points away from the relegation zone.
Baghdad - A female suicide bomber killed seven tribal police members on Monday in Iraq's Baquba city, witnesses said.
The bomber detonated herself in the midst of a tribal police checkpoint in al-Atibaa street in the centre of Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa.
Eight people, including civilians and tribal police, were wounded in the attack.
Tribal police are also known as the Awakening Councils, which are members of Sunni tribes who coordinated with the US forces to fight al-Qaeda militants in Iraq.
London, Nov 10 : American singer songwriter Katy Perry showed her possessive side at the MTV Europe Music Awards when she caught her boyfriend Travis McCoy being surrounded by girls.
McCoy, who fronts Gym Class Heroes and had presented the Rock Out Award to 30 Seconds To Mars, seemed bemused as the girls attempted to touch his piercings and inspect his tattoos.
Perry, 24, lost her cool when she saw a gang of women trying to flirt with her boyfriend in the VIP area backstage.
Brussels - The European Union is to send a fleet of frigates and spotter aircraft to the sea off Somalia in order to combat piracy there, the bloc's foreign ministers decided Monday.
London, Nov 10 : American singer songwriter Katy Perry showed her possessive side at the MTV Europe Music Awards when she caught her boyfriend Travis McCoy being surrounded by girls.
