Newly Converted Muslim Posing In Tuxedo With Girls in Niqabs And Stockings

A photograph of the white Muslim convert who planned to murder Prince Harry shows him posing on a beach with women in niqabs and stockings.

Belfast-born Ashraf Islam, was jailed after turning himself into police for plotting an attack to kill the prince earlier this year.

The 31-year-old, formerly known as Mark Townley, is pictured in a dinner jacket with the two women in the undated photograph taken from his website.

Islam gave himself up to police the day after Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in Woolwich after planning to kill the prince in a plot he had named Operation Regal.

He told officers at Hounslow police station in west London that he had ‘advanced plans’ to shoot the prince at close range with a low-calibre pistol.

Islam described Drummer Rigby as a ‘soft target’ and said he did not agree with the attack.
He said he intended to kill Prince Harry because the third  in line to the throne, a veteran  of Afghanistan, ‘had blood on  his hands’.

Ashraf grew up in a Christian household before falling into trouble with the law and converting to Islam following his last stint behind bars in 2011.

His family are said to be 'devastated' by his actions, particularly his religious mother Angela who was is being cared for by family friends, The Mirror has reported.

A court heard on Friday how Islam had spent time in Thailand researching the prince and his whereabouts before returning to the UK and handing himself in.

Lynne Townley, prosecuting at Isleworth Crown Court, said: ‘On May 23, at Hounslow police station, Ashraf Islam made a threat to PC Boyne that he was going to kill another person, that was namely Prince Harry.’

Miss Townley said: ‘He said he’d been watching the Horse Guards Parade and planned to disarm an officer while disguised as a tourist, rather than bringing a gun into London.

‘He used his time in Thailand to get his fitness to a higher level. He planned to send a telephone warning to create a diversion.’

A document found on Islam’s computer stated: ‘Aim for target. No civilians to be injured. Dress code is the biker look. Use low-calibre  pistol at close range. Not to be viewed as Islamist extremist.’

She told the court that after landing at Heathrow, Islam checked into a Travelodge hotel and at 11am the  following morning went to Hounslow police station.

He told PC Boyne, the duty officer, that he wanted to talk about a murder and asked to speak in private.
Miss Townley said: ‘He told the officer he had come to the station because he wanted to admit to a  serious incident which he would commit the next day.

He claimed he was being monitored by UK security. The would-be killer said he decided to confess to his grisly plans after feeling ‘scared and nervous’ on the morning of May 23.

‘He said he felt it was best to speak to the police directly.’ At Uxbridge magistrates’ court on May 25, Islam pleaded guilty to one count of making a threat to kill.

Islam, who separated from his wife and young child in Northern Ireland after making ‘several reckless financial decisions’, converted to the religion in Belfast.

The Crown Court adjourned his sentencing until November 1 so a mental health assessment can be completed by a doctor.

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A Woman Tries to Sell Her “Slightly Used Soul” on eBay, Are You Interested?

I guess it’s true what they say, you can find anything on eBay, even a slightly used human soul. And while some of us wouldn’t sell our soul for all the money in the world, a woman from Albuquerque tried to give hers away for just $2,000.

It might sound like a stupid joke, or an-attention grabbing scheme, but the woman selling her soul, identified as Lori N., said her eBay ad is a cry for help. ”I guess you could say that. I’m at the point now, I’m tired. I don’t feel good.

I’m near the end of my rope. I really am,” she told WOAI. Up until five years ago, Lori was living a normal life and made a living as a freelance writer, but a serious car accident completely changed her life. She was a passenger in a car hit by a drunk driver, and the repercussions were dire.

The poor woman was in a coma for three weeks, and woke up suffering from a stroke, a broken hip, broken pelvis, leg, collarbone, sternum, ribs, a collapsed lung.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, she lost one of her breasts.

Lori N. is a freelance writer who can’t write much anymore and gets by on part-time inventory work.

So she figured if she can’t use her body anymore, why nor market her soul? ”What I’m gonna deliver is the opportunity for someone to save my soul,” Lori says. “They can save it through prayer, they can save it through conversion.

They’re also gonna get a certificate detailing the white and black marks on my soul.” That’s sort of like the vehicle history you get when you buy a used car, only spiritual.

The opening bid for this “slightly used soul” is $2,000, but so far she hasn’t had any takers. Still, the ad had quite a lot of hits, and that’s encouraging to Lori.

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Shitter: Now Turn Your Tweets Into A Toilet Paper Roll

Twitter is full of a lot of crap, like shameless self-promotion, a million boring SEO articles that manage to not actually say anything, and everyone tweeting about their lunch. Look, NPH is just about the only person who can get away with tweeting about what he eats, because well, he’s NPH.

But everyone else, you might as well be tweeting about your meal after you’ve digested it because frankly, no one gives a shit. That’s why most services that print out your tweets are ridiculous—no one’s tweets deserve to be printed out on paper… unless it’s toilet paper.

Shitter is a service that will print any of your twitter feeds on toilet paper so you can wipe with your own tweets, your favorites, and tweets from a specific list. Twitter lists are usually positive or descriptive, but I imagine this will lead to a lot of lists called something like “Tweets So Bad I Use Them To Wipe My Ass.”

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A Family on Vacations Discovers a Crab With face of Osama bin Laden

Jesus Christ's face has been spotted on a piece of toast, a restaurant receipt and a pizza. Now a family in Washington State have discovered the son of God's image peering up at them from the underside of a crab.

But in a bizarre twist, the face also looks the spitting image of Osama bin Laden. The freakish crustacean was captured on video by the Canfield family during a crabbing trip near Everett, Washington, last weekend.

The family were unloading a pot of crabs into their boat when they filmed the creature, which has a striking resemblance to Jesus - and the dead al Qaeda terrorist - on its belly.

But the person filming the movie didn't even notice, according to mynorthwest.com, and the crab was chucked back into the ocean because it was a female and therefore illegal to keep.

The family finally spotted the holy - or evil - crab, while watching the film after they got home from holidays, and were dumbfounded.

Dad John Canfield denied the Christ-like crab was a hoax, adding 'we're not that sophisticated' to come up with one. But sadly, the video is the only evidence that remains so no one will ever know

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10 Reasons Why ... A Dog Is Better Than A Woman!

Jennifer Aniston once said she prefers dogs to men because they 'make better companions' and offer 'unconditional love'.

This week video blogger Emily Hartridge argues that four-legged friends are better than women too, in an online post that is sure to infuriate her army of female fans.

The controversial comic likes to cause a stir with her weekly diatribes and this provocative '10 reasons why' explores girls' most annoying habits from a man's point of view.

As well as comparing women and dogs as running partners ('Dogs never get tired, they are always right by your side and they always have so much energy') 28-year-old Emily explains that canines are a lot easier to live with generally as they don't spend their time hating their bodies, moaning about other girls and over analysing relationships.

She imagines that dogs are more fun because they can't talk, illustrated by shots of her yapping incessantly in to a pretend boyfriend's ear.

Presenter Emily also reminds the viewer that dogs wait by the door for their owners and get excited when they are late - both very unlikely situations for a girlfriend to ever find herself in.

But before her feminist fans get too upset Emily makes sure that we know she is simply poking fun at the differences between the sexes in her own wry way as she poses with a leash around her neck to illustrate reason number 10 ('It's legal to keep a dog chained up') ... at least, we hope she's joking.

See more from Emily at her YouTube channel and on Twitter.

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Woman Gets Surgery To Look Like Husbands Dead Wife

A man in China has convinced his new wife to undergo plastic surgery so she could resemble his dead first wife. Zhao Gang, 32 from Chongqing city, China, lost his first wife in a car accident three years ago and now wants his new wife to look exactly like her dead wife.

Zhao told the Chongqing Business News, “I recovered after staying in hospital for half a year and I wish I could have died with her.”

But extreme pressure from Zhao’s parents forced him to remarry in July. “I got married only because she looks a bit like her and I want to have a chance to make up for my mistakes,” says Zhao.

Now, he wants his new bride to undergo plastic surgery so she would really resemble his dead wife. Fortunately for him, his second wife agreed to his suggestion.

His unidentified wife told the newspaper, “I feel conflicted. I don’t want to become another’s shadow, but I also don’t want to lose the family. Now I only hope the surgery will not make me look ugly.”

Zhao said, “Maybe it’s more or less unfair to her, but she has agreed and I will embrace her with all my love.”

But the director of Chongqing’s People’s Hospital plastic surgery unit, Dr. Zhang Lianfeng would not immediately place the woman under the knife and urged the couple to undergo psychological consultation first.

He said, “Plastic surgery is not the best way to sustain a relationship and the surgery can’t make two people look exactly the same.”

Plastic surgery is a specialty that uses surgical techniques to change the appearance and function of patients’ bodies. Some of these operations are called “cosmetic,” and others are called “reconstructive.”

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Look at the World through the Eyes of your dog

It will come as no surprise that an animal's view of the world is different to our own, but what isn't so clear is exactly what they see.

A new exhibition at the Royal Society is shows images that illustrate what our pets and other animals see when they look at each other and when they look at us.

The fascinating insight shows the latest research into the colour vision of animals, many of which can see ultraviolet, or colours that we can't see, making their world view completely different to ours.

Birds, for example, can see ultraviolet so a peacock looking at a potential mate would not see the beautiful rainbow of greens and blues that we behold, but a plainer yet more brightly coloured display of plumage.

Understanding how animals see the world could be key to understanding their behaviour.

Animal colouration provides some of the most striking examples of evolution by natural and sexual selection.

But animal colours did not evolve for our benefit; the impressive array of animal colours that we see (and can’t see) in the natural world allows animals to communicate with each other, to attract mates and to avoid predators.

It's a language humans are only beginning to understand.

Dr Tom Pike, Senior Lecturer from Lincoln University’s School of Life Sciences, said: ‘We rely overwhelmingly on colour vision in our everyday lives, and tend to assume that what we see represents the limits of the visual world.

'However, colour vision in animals, and their resultant perception of the visual world, often differs considerably from our own.

'Many, for example, can see ultraviolet light, some can see polarised light, and a good number can see many more colours than we can,' says Pike.

'Having said that, certain animals see far fewer colours than us – something that anyone who is colour blind can sympathise with.'

‘Because animal colours evolved for the benefit of animal - and not human - eyes, understanding the visual world from an animal’s point of view can explain why some animals are bright while others are dull. Some are highly patterned and others plain. This allows us not only to shed exciting new light on the animal colours we can see, but also to understand the importance of colours that we can’t.’

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How to Fart in Public Without Getting Caught

Seen as a dirty part of human nature, people around you react furiously when you let one rip. But fret not, we know how to make you release the wind in the willows without anybody noticing!

Let it Rip

Don’t be afraid to let it rip anywhere, anytime. Chances are if it’s in a public place with loads of people around, all heads will be turning at each other in suspicion. You must do the same. Act normal, and let the smell intoxicate the zone around you. Remember, the fart is your oyster.

Slowly release the tension, but try to let it coincide with any noises around you so you can sneak it in. No one will notice it if there are noises around. Just remember, a fart is your ass’s way of saying ‘Hi’ when you forget it’s there.

Face Off

The most important part about farting is preventing anybody from seeing you do that hard-to-avoid facial expression upon release. Instead, release it naturally, and the moment you see someone else with a disgusted face, you must express disgust, subtly. It shouldn’t be a case of you noticing the fart first. In most cases, whoever detected it, ejected it.

Firstly, wait for others around you to sniff a little. Once you see they have their faces in disgust, it’s up to you to react too. This is your cue. Slowly, screw up your face and put your index and thumb finger up to your nostrils. This will show your disgust and will instantly prove your innocence. While the others are sniffing it in, look around you, and if you have time for a second passing of air, do it, but make sure you don’t bend your knees as if you’re trying to shit it out. Just let it go easily.

Chain Reaction

Now that you’ve shown your disapproval, look around you and without pointing fingers per se, instead look at someone that looks like a farter, in disgust. The likelihood is that all others will look towards this person too. You need to be the ‘adult’ here. Lead others away from the act as if you’re a fireman on duty. Your leadership skills will be rewarded with glances of praise for your skill in dealing with the crime. At this point try not to release any more. Keep these in reserve for your next step, walking away.

Walk the Line

Slowly, but in calculated fashion, walk confidently away from the scene of the crime and take out your mobile to show you’re a busy person who doesn’t have time for all this farting about. Your walk should be cool, like you’re an ubersexual on the Paris catwalk. If you want to release again, say something loud on the phone, and release at that moment. The sound of your voice and the sound of your fart will coincide perfectly. You really are the Godfarter…

Wherever you may be, let your wind pass free

Swimming pools are always a good bet, even though bubbles will rise when you let it go. You can just flap your hands around when the bubbles rise indicating that the bubbles are a result of your hand waves and not your arse tremors.

If you need to let one go in the cinema, do it. With Dolby Surround Sound fitted into most cinemas, any scene usually has music or loud moments. Be opportunistic and release when the time is right. The only problem is you’ll have issues when the smell rises around you. Don’t worry though, it’s dark, nobody can point the finger. And even if they do, others can’t see.

Playing sports is always a good way to fart in public, especially with any sports involving running. Nobody can notice it because the adrenalin takes away anybody’s sense of noticing such an act. Just don’t fart if you’re playing wrestling, chess, or snooker. This would be disastrous and embarrassing.

Covert Farting Techniques!

• Cough loudly when you fart.
• Act cool and suave, as if you would never fart.
• Fart when dressed smartly. Chances are, you don’t fart compared to someone in jeans and sneakers.
• If you’re out on a first date, let it be silent but violent. And go blaming it on the waiter while he poured the wine.
• If in a meeting, let it out. But use the ‘squeaky chair’ you’re sitting on as an excuse.

Now go share your fragrances with the world, oh Godfarter!

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Most Weird Car Accident You Will Ever See

Hovering 50 feet above the ground is amongst the more terrifying ways to end up finishing off a test drive.

Yet that's exactly what happened to one hapless driver in China who attempted to take a new Volkswagen car for a spin.
Lin Hu, from Liuzhou city in southern China, had been attempting to stop the car but put his foot on the accelerator instead of the brake.

And as a result the would-be buyer smashed through a glass wall to leave the car dangling precariously from the fourth floor showroom.

A car salesman, who witnessed the incident, said: 'The customer sat in the car and wanted to have a go in the driver's seat.
'A colleague of mine was sitting with him in the car showing him its different functions.

'Then suddenly the customer put his foot on the accelerator and the car shot across the showroom and smashed through the wall.

'They were very lucky. We thought the car would lose its balance (at) any moment and would take a nose dive to the ground.'

Fortunately for both the terrified motorist and the salesman who was accompanying him, Mr Hu. managed to halt the vehicle just in time and the pair scrambled to safety through the car's rear doors.

Staff managed to secure the car from the back and rescue workers were subsequently able to salvage the car.

Police are now investigating why the driver - who looks set to face a large bill for the damage - was allowed to turn on the car engine indoors.

Lin Hu isn't the first person by that name to meet with an unlikely fate whilst behind the wheel.

Last August, it was reported that a taxi driver with the same name in Xian, central China, was lucky to survive after his car was crushed by a delivery of instant noodles

The huge quantity of two-minute noodles had rolled off an out-of-control delivery truck as it turned a corner towards him.

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Bikini Wedding: Brides Who Dare To Wear Bikini At The Altar

It's heating up around the U.S. right now and with wedding season in full swing, brides might want to think about skipping the big white dress and donning a suit down the aisle.

A bathing suit, that is.

In honor of the 66th anniversary of the bikini, click through the slideshow below to see brides who showed a little extra skin on their Big Days, as well as a few bridal bikini options if you're going straight from the aisle to the isles.

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iPhone Addiction: People Even Use Their iPhone While Having Sex

Nearly 4 percent people admit to having used their iPhones while having sex, a new survey has revealed. The study conducted by Gazelle.com showed that 15 percent people would choose a romance-free weekend rather than go without their iPhone, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

The Gazelle survey asked 1,000 people who have used the service to trade-in an old device if they’d rather go without sex or iPhone for a weekend. 15 percent of people chose sex.

This isn’t the first time smartphone owners have admitted that they would give up sex over their beloved device. In a related survey conducted by another company, smartphones tied with intimate relationships as two things business professionals said that they couldn’t live without.

A spokesperson for Gazelle said that they were even more surprised at the number of people who said that they would choose their device over Facebook.

“When asked which device or platform they would not be able to live without, a majority (65 percent) chose iPhone, while only a few (one per cent) report not being able to do without Facebook,” the press release for the survey states.

The survey was open to Gazelle customers for about one week. A spokesperson for Gazelle told Mashable they wanted to make the survey available for iPhone owners because the questions related to that device.

Meanwhile, nearly 85 percent of respondents reported to having used their iPhone while in the bathroom.

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Bagelheads – Japan’s Take on the Klingon Forehead

Ok, so they don’t look nearly as cool as Klingons, but Japanese bagelheads really do look like they came from a galaxy far far away. For some reason, injecting saline into the forehead is becoming an increasingly popular trend in the land of the rising sun.

Bagelheads have been around for years, but they recently caused international controversy after the body modification technique was featured on National Geographic’s Taboo program.

Three people underwent the bagelhead procedure in Tokyo, under the supervision of an expert and the watchful eyes of several body modification enthusiasts. They had large needles inserted into their foreheads through which saline slowly dripped forming a kind of reservoir.

When enough saline built up under the skin creating a nice bulge, the body mod master simply pressed his thumb on it to give it that coveted bagel shape. For some reason, every one of the three subjects seemed pretty happy to have a deformed head.

The bagelhead trend was brought to Japan by body modification photographer Ryoichi “Keroppy” Maeda in 2007, when he set up a team and started doing forehead infusions. He first saw the bizarre practice in 1999, at a body modification show in Toronto. He experienced it himself in 2003, and eventually asked permission from the artist who perfected the technique to bring it to Japan. And the rest, as they say, is history…

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Meet The Girl Who Has Transformed Herself into A Living Cartoon Character

With her enormous, glassy eyes, purple hair and coquettish pose, this girl could have stepped from the scene of a Japanese anime film.

Anime fan Anastasiya Shpagina has transformed herself into a living cartoon character, complete with miniature waist, vividly-coloured hair, and a defined pout.
Originally from the Ukraine, the 19-year-old takes style inspiration from the cartoons and computer animations that have a huge following in Japan, and has even adopted a Japanese name - Fukkacumi.

Anime characters often feature huge eyes and heads that are disproportionately large in comparison to their body.
Shpagina, who is just 5ft2ins tall, is already reported to have slimmed down to just over six stone in her attempts to resemble a living anime character, and is said to spend 30 minutes painstakingly applying her dramatic make-up to each one of her eyes.

It is thought Shpagina may go even further in her efforts to achieve her desired look, with some reports claiming she intends to undergo surgery on her eyes to make her resemble her anime idols even more closely.

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Here Is A Turbo-Beetle Loaded With A Jet Thruster

Size really doesn’t matter people, this little bug is the perfect example. Ron Patrick decided that conventional tuning wasn’t going to cut it for his 2000 VW Beetle so he decided to mount a $270.000 , 26,000rpm, 1.350 horse power Navy surplus helicopter jet turbine in the trunk of his ride.

The Standford PhD and car designer says when the turbine kicks in, “it’s like the finger of God is pushing the car” but he only uses it until the car reaches 140mph, because he estimates that at about 160mph, the car would be airborne.

 Patrick doesn’t use his little beast in races, because he feels he’s too mature to race with 16 year old fans of The Fast and The Furious. I’m not, let me have that baby and I’ll own the streets!

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Justin Bieber Shares A Sloppy Kiss With A Mannequin

JUSTIN Bieber gets stuck into a wet snog – with a disembodied head. The teen star – rumoured to be back with ex Selena Gomez – gave his tongue a workout after picking up a plastic mannequin head while shooting hoops with random objects on the Jimmy Fallon show. He stroked the dummy’s hair before launching into a one-sided game of tonsil tennis.

The 18-year-old singer was presented with a series of specially selected objects to throw through a basketball hoop – including a bowl of noodles, a cup of his favourite Canadian coffee and a singing Bieber doll. Seeing a framed photo of Chuck Norris he joked that the martial arts star was his real father.

And before throwing the head, host Jimmy warned him not to “fall in love” before following Justin’s lead and kissing his own dummy. Crowds of girl’s screamed as the Baby pin-up smooched his plastic partner – and also boasted about his abs.

Justin, who split with Disney star Selena during a New Year break in Mexico, is thought to be winning her back after she spent Friday night at his LA mansion.
Maybe that’s why he’s been practising his kissing technique.

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