From the moment Carlo Ancelotti discovered that his trusted assistant Ray Wilkins had been sacked without his knowledge, the Chelsea manager knew he was on borrowed time at Stamford Bridge.

Ancelotti was sacked by Chelsea on Sunday less than two hours after his side concluded a disappointing season with a 1-0 defeat at Everton.

The flamboyant hat worn by Princess Beatrice at last month's British royal wedding was Sunday sold for the princely sum of £81,100 ($131,652; 93,171 euros) on internet auction site eBay.

Proceeds from the sale of the hat, designed by Irish milliner Philip Treacy, will be split between two charities: the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, and British charity Children in Crisis.

Swarms of angels, flying horses and fantastic birds of paradise converged on Vienna's neo-Gothic City Hall on Saturday for this year's Life Ball.

In line with this year's motto -- "Spread the Wings of Tolerance" -- many of the guests to the 19th edition of one of the world's biggest AIDS charity events let their imaginations take flight with their spectacularly colorful fancy dress.

Police arrested a French actor for baring his bottom to fans when they asked to take a photograph of him in the movie festival town of Cannes, media and an official said Monday.

Sami Naceri, 49, star of the hit television series "Taxi", was arrested on Sunday and is in police custody, "accused of displaying an intimate part of his anatomy" in public, said the police official, who asked not to be named.

The EU tightened its sanctions on Iran on Monday, adding more than 100 firms to a blacklist of companies hit by an assets freeze over Tehran's disputed nuclear program, diplomats said.

EU foreign ministers adopted the new restrictive measures amid efforts to jump start international talks aimed at convincing Iran to halt its nuclear activities.

A suicide bomber struck a crowded Afghan bazaar on Monday, killing four civilians and wounding another 14 in a remote town in the east of the country.

"Four civilians were martyred and another 14 were wounded," provincial governor's spokesman Faizanullah Pattan told Agence France Presse, adding that he did not know what the attacker's target had been.

U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in windswept Dublin on Monday for a highly personal stop in Ireland at the start of a four-nation European tour.

Obama's visit will also take him on a state visit to Britain, the G8 summit in France and Poland.

Europe tightened the noose on President Bashar al-Assad Monday, imposing sanctions on the Syrian leader for the first time while calling for quick Middle East peace talks as it responded to the Arab Spring.

Long reluctant to target the Syrian leader directly, the European Union's decision to slap an assets freeze and travel ban on Assad is the latest in a string of measures against his regime, though the effects are unclear.

Taliban gunmen armed with rockets and explosives stormed a major naval air base in the heart of Pakistan's biggest city, destroying two U.S.-made surveillance aircraft and killing 13 personnel.

It was the worst assault on a military base since the army headquarters was besieged in October 2009, piling further embarrassment on the armed forces three weeks after U.S. troops killed Osama bin Laden under their noses.

A massive tornado that swept through the Missouri town of Joplin has killed at least 89 people, a senior local official announced Monday.

"We have 89 confirmed dead due to this tornado," City Manager Mark Rohr said in a statement.