NEW YORK, (AFP) - R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles and her father announced Tuesday that he'll no longer be her manager, People magazine reported.

http://ascology.com/news/entertainment/9714-Beyonce-sacks-dad-manager-Report.html

NEW HAVEN, (AFP) - The nearly three century old method for naming newly discovered nature will face a rebellion this Friday at Yale University.

http://ascology.com/news/green360/9736-Whats-name-Lots-for-the-newly-discovered.html

(FACTS) - RIO DE JANEIRO, (AFP) - The following are the worst mass shootings in schools and universities around the world, after a man opened fire in a school in Rio de Janeiro Thursday, killing 10 people before taking his own life.

http://ascology.com/news/green360/facts/9734-Classroom-horror-school-shootings-worldwide.html

SOFIA, (AFP) - A Bulgarian man nearly killed himself with rat poison and mercury outside government buildings in Sofia Wednesday to protest his prolonged unemployment, national radio reported.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/crime/9633-Jobless-Bulgarian-poisons-himself-protest-report.html

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Ohio executed Tuesday a man for beating a fellow inmate to death over changing a television channel, prison officials said.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/crime/9452-Ohio-executes-jailhouse-killer.html

MOGADISHU, (AFP) - Three young Somalis accused of theft had a hand and a foot chopped off in public Tuesday in Jowhar, a town north of Mogadishu controlled by the Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab group.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/crime/9383-Somalias-Shebab-cut-off-thieves-hands-and-feet.html

BEIJING, (AFP) - A woman in eastern China killed her infant grandson by tossing him into a well after a fortune-teller told her the child's zodiac sign would bring ruin to the family, state media reported.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/crime/9326-China-woman-kills-grandson-over-zodiac-sign-report.html

ABIDJAN, (AFP) - "Don't kill me!" were the first words that Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo shouted when forces loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara captured him on Monday, a witness told AFP.

http://ascology.com/news/world-news/9289-Dont-kill-Gbagbo-shouted-capture-Witness.html

SEOUL, (AFP) - South Korean police have sniffed out a total of 11 billion won ($10.1 million) in cash buried in remote garlic fields and have confiscated the haul, officers said Tuesday.

http://ascology.com/news/green360/odd-news/9317-Police-sniff-out-10m-buried-garlic-field.html

PARIS, (AFP) - Researchers said Sunday they had solved a conundrum about human perception that has stumped philosophers and scientists alike since it was first articulated 323 years ago by an Irish politician in a letter to John Locke.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/science/9278-Scientists-settle-centuries-old-debate-perception.html

SAN FRANCISCO, (AFP) - Michael Jackson fans will get to show off how well they sing and dance like the King of Pop in videogames crafted by Ubisoft for play on Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles.

http://ascology.com/news/technology/9220-Michael-Jackson-fantasies-play-out-Xbox---PS3.html

MOSCOW, (AFP) - Pro-Kremlin activists have posed in lingerie for an erotic calendar with an anti-graft message and the slogan "sex against corruption", youth movement Nashi (Ours) said on Thursday.

http://ascology.com/news/green360/odd-news/9000-Pro-Kremlin-activists-strip-for-anti-graft-calendar.html

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Being exposed to highway pollution can cause brain damage in mice akin to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said Thursday.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/science/9001-Car-pollution-can-damage-brain-Study.html

LONDON, (AFP) - Nobel prize winners have criticised an eminent British scientist for accepting a US-funded £1 million ($1.6 million, 1.1 million euro) prize for exploring life's spiritual dimension.

The cosmologist Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, was awarded this year's Templeton Prize, endowed by the late US mutual fund pioneer John Templeton, late Wednesday.

http://ascology.com/news/green360/8980-Nobel-winners-condemn-religious-science-prize.html

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Data from a major US atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature, one of the physicists involved in the discovery told AFP on Wednesday.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/science/8984-atom-smasher-may-have-found-new-force-nature.html

RIO DE JANEIRO, (AFP) - A heavily armed man entered his former Rio school Thursday and opened fire, killing 10 children and wounding 18 people before taking his own life, officials said in a tragedy that has shaken Brazil.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/crime/8987-killed-unprecedented-Brazil-school-shooting.html

TOKYO, (AFP) - A powerful earthquake hit northeastern Japan late Thursday, seismologists said, prompting Japanese authorities to issue a localised tsunami alert.

http://ascology.com/news/world-news/8983-New-powerful-quake-hits-Japan-again.html

SAN FRANCISCO, (AFP) - Microsoft and Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) on Wednesday announced they will work together to infuse the Japanese auto maker's cars with digital capabilities hosted in the Internet "cloud."

http://ascology.com/news/technology/8941-Microsoft-power-Toyota-cars-Internet-highway.html

BUENOS AIRES, (AFP) - Following tens of millions of other social media fans worldwide, Barcelona midfield star Lionel Messi set up a Facebook page on Wednesday.

http://ascology.com/news/sports/football/8937-Messi-Facebook-page-draws-over-million.html

GLEN BURNIE, (AFP) - For a man whose view of the world has slowly faded to black over 30 years, a device that allows him to see flashes of light has enkindled his hope of one day gazing upon his grandson's face.

http://ascology.com/news/green360/features/8733-Bionic-eye-implant-offers-hope-the-blind.html

KUALA LUMPUR, (AFP) - Malaysia's first gay-themed movie has been a hit at the box office but an official from the conservative Islamic party Thursday called for it to be banned despite its anti-homosexual ending.

http://ascology.com/news/entertainment/8634-Malaysias-first-gay-film-box-office-hit-Report.html

A Nigerian has been sentenced to death in Vietnam for transporting heroin, while his Vietnamese wife was jailed for life, a court official said Wednesday.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/crime/7604-Nigerian-sentenced-death-for-drugs-Vietnam.html

Former Czech president and anti-communist icon Vaclav Havel made his debut as a filmmaker as his movie "Leaving", based on his own play, premiered in Prague Tuesday.

http://ascology.com/news/entertainment/7586-Czech-icon-Havels-film-debut-premieres-Prague.html

A 63-year-old Dutch woman gave birth to a daughter on Monday, becoming the oldest-ever new mother in the Netherlands, the hospital and news reports said.

http://ascology.com/news/health/7456-Dutch-woman-gives-birth-New-country-record.html

The village folk of Tanzania's idyllic Zanzibar archipelago have hit the road; sleeping on tarmac at night to cool off from the chocking tropical heat in their poorly ventilated houses.

http://ascology.com/news/green360/odd-news/7450-Tarmac-roads-are-cool-rural-Zanzibar.html

Forty-three suspects including seven bank chiefs are to face trial over an alleged N12 billion fraud in the Pensions Unit of the office of the Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF).

http://ascology.com/news/local-news/7287-Seven-bank-chiefs-others-face-trial-over-alleged-N12b-pension-fraud.html

Twitter on Monday marked its fifth birthday with a new website and online video of celebrities talking up the world-changing micro-blogging service.

http://ascology.com/news/technology/7364-Twitter-marks-fifth-birthday-with-new-website.html

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is demanding at least 90 million euros in ransom for the release of four French hostages held since September, a source close to mediators said Monday.

http://ascology.com/news/world-news/7348--Qaeda-wants--million-euro-ransom-for-French-hostages.html

A German trucker accused of sexually abusing his daughter, stepson and stepdaughter, fathering eight children with the latter, confessed to all charges on Monday, a court spokesman said.

http://ascology.com/news/extras/crime/7350-Confession-German-incest-trial.html

FREETOWN, (AFP) - One person was killed and 12 injured in a stampede at a Freetown stadium in a rush for free medical screening by doctors from the British Mercy Ship floating hospital, doctors said Tuesday.

http://ascology.com/news/health/5884-Man-killed-rush-for-free-healthcare-SLeone.html