Mike Weatherley with wife Carla. They met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where Weatherley, a former business executive was on a business trip
A British MP's wife works as a prostitute charging 70 pounds (RM 336) "for oral sex without a condom followed by full sex with a condom", according to a media report.
The revelation left the MP stunned as he said: "That's a horrible shock".
Sunday Mirror reported that Tory MP Mike Weatherley's Brazilian wife Carla, 39, works at three seedy brothels.
The expose could prove embarrassing to Prime Minister David Cameron, who campaigned alongside Weatherley at the general election earlier this year.
Carla works at two brothels - the North Cheam Massage and Intimate Massage in Bedford
Weatherley met Carla 10 years ago while he was on a business trip to Rio de Janeiro. Sources say that she was already then a sex worker then.
There is, however, nothing to suggest that Weatherley knew.
After starting a relationship, Weatherley may have bought Carla an apartment in the Copacabana beach area.
Later, Weatherley moved Carla to Britain, where they married in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2003.
Carla's occupation was listed as housewife in the marriage certificate and initially, she put her past behind her.
However, in February, as Weatherley geared up for the poll campaign, she re-entered the sex industry.
During the campaign, Weatherley took Carla to a number of political functions in the Hove and Portslade constituency.
A Sunday Mirror reporter met her at a South London massage parlour where she offered to perform a list of sex acts. She then stripped off and danced naked.
The media report said that Carla walked into the room in pink lingerie and - said she was "Bea".
She then rattled off a price list - "30 pounds (RM93.60) for hand relief, 40 pounds (RM124.80) for oral sex with a condom followed by sex and 70 pounds for oral sex without a condom followed by full sex with a condom".
She also spoke about two brothels where she works - North Cheam Massage and Intimate Massage in Bedford.
"I started working in Bedford in February, but it is very far away. Here we have two houses, this one and one in Cheam. And I work there at the moment."
"I cover for my friend because she's on holiday. I work Thursday there and Friday here. Then, when she is back, I will work Mondays. Thursdays here, Mondays there," she was quoted as saying.
She added: "I like it here, nice clients, nice people, nice place and good money."
Weatherley said he was not aware that his wife was a prostitute and added: "Oh no. It's a bit of a shock. We separated in February and I had absolutely no idea at all."
"We've kept in touch and have lunch together every week so we're still good friends. That's a horrible shock... thank you for letting me know."
A radio interviewer asked me the other day if I thought bigotry was the only reason why someone might oppose the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. No, I don't. Most of the opponents aren't bigots but well-meaning worriers — and during earlier waves of intolerance in American history, it was just the same.
Screeds against Catholics from the 19th century sounded just like the invective today against the Not-at-Ground-Zero Mosque. The starting point isn't hatred but fear: an alarm among patriots that newcomers don't share their values, don't believe in democracy, and may harm innocent Americans.
Followers of these movements against Irish, Germans, Italians, Chinese and other immigrants were mostly decent, well-meaning people trying to protect their country. But they were manipulated by demagogues playing upon their fears — the 19th- and 20th-century equivalents of Glenn Beck.
Most Americans stayed on the sidelines during these spasms of bigotry, and only a small number of hoodlums killed or tormented Catholics, Mormons or others. But the assaults were possible because so many middle-of-the-road Americans were ambivalent.
Suspicion of outsiders, of people who behave or worship differently, may be an ingrained element of the human condition, a survival instinct from our cave-man days. But we should also recognize that historically this distrust has led us to burn witches, intern Japanese-Americans, and turn away Jewish refugees from the Holocaust.
Perhaps the closest parallel to today's hysteria about Islam is the 19th-century fear spread by the Know Nothing movement about "the Catholic menace." One book warned that Catholicism was "the primary source" of all of America's misfortunes, and there were whispering campaigns that presidents including Martin Van Buren and William McKinley were secretly working with the pope. Does that sound familiar?
Critics warned that the pope was plotting to snatch the Mississippi Valley and secretly conspiring to overthrow American democracy. "Rome looks with wistful eye to domination of this broad land, a magnificent seat for a sovereign pontiff," one writer cautioned.
Historically, unreal suspicions were sometimes rooted in genuine and significant differences. Many new Catholic immigrants lacked experience in democracy. Mormons were engaged in polygamy. And today some extremist Muslims do plot to blow up planes, and Islam has real problems to work out about the rights of women. The pattern has been for demagogues to take real abuses and exaggerate them, portraying, for example, the most venal wing of the Catholic Church as representative of all Catholicism — just as fundamentalist Wahabis today are caricatured as more representative of Islam than the incomparably more numerous moderate Muslims of Indonesia (who have elected a woman as president before Americans have).
In the 19th century, fears were stoked by books written by people who supposedly had "escaped" Catholicism. These books luridly recounted orgies between priests and nuns, girls kidnapped and held in secret dungeons, and networks of tunnels at convents to allow priests to rape nuns. One woman claiming to have been a priest's sex slave wrote a "memoir" asserting that Catholics killed boys and ground them into sausage for sale.
These kinds of stories inflamed a mob of patriots in 1834 to attack an Ursuline convent outside Boston and burn it down.
Similar suspicions have targeted just about every other kind of immigrant. During World War I, rumors spread that German-Americans were poisoning food, and Theodore Roosevelt warned that "Germanized socialists" were "more mischievous than bubonic plague."
Anti-Semitic screeds regularly warned that Jews were plotting to destroy the United States in one way or another. A 1940 survey found that 17 percent of Americans considered Jews to be a "menace to America."
Chinese in America were denounced, persecuted and lynched, while the head of a United States government commission publicly urged in 1945 "the extermination of the Japanese in toto." Most shamefully, anti-Asian racism led to the internment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
All that is part of America's heritage, and typically as each group has assimilated, it has participated in the torment of newer arrivals — as in Father Charles Coughlin's ferociously anti-Semitic radio broadcasts in the 1930s. Today's recrudescence is the lies about President Obama's faith, and the fear-mongering about the proposed Islamic center.
But we have a more glorious tradition intertwined in American history as well, one of tolerance, amity and religious freedom. Each time, this has ultimately prevailed over the Know Nothing impulse.
Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home - The New York Times
Jutawan kosmetik terkenal, Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya menimbulkan misteri apabila dia dan tiga yang lain dilaporkan hilang enam hari lalu selepas keluar dari sebuah pejabatnya di Kampung Baru di sini pada 30 Ogos lalu.
Turut hilang bersama Sosilawati yang merupakan pengarah urusan dan pengasas syarikat produk kecantikan Nouvelles Visage itu ialah seorang peguam, pegawai bank dan pemandu wanita itu.
Mereka hilang bersama kereta BMW X7 milik Sosilawati.
Satu sumber berkata, sebelum hilang, Sosilawati yang merupakan bekas isteri penyanyi terkenal kumpulan Lefthanded, Jamaludin Elias atau lebih dikenali Nash dikatakan telah meninggalkan pejabatnya bagi menghadiri majlis berbuka puasa.
Namun, selepas meninggalkan pejabat itu, telefon bimbit milik wanita terbabit gagal dihubungi menyebabkan anak sulungnya yang dikenali sebagai Rita membuat laporan di Balai Polis Gombak.
Difahamkan, sebelum dilaporkan hilang, Sosilawati yang berasal dari Batu Pahat, Johor dipercayai telah mengeluarkan wang sebanyak RM4 juta kononnya bagi membeli sebidang tanah di Banting, Selangor.
Sosilawati dan Nash, 50, telah berkahwin pada 16 November 2006 sebelum bercerai secara sah dengan talak satu raji'e di Mahkamah Rendah Syariah Gombak Timur di sini pada 26 Mei 2009 - Kosmo
Employees surfing the Internet or chatting on social networking sites during office hours are costing companies of millions of ringgit annually in lost productivity.
This has caused some employers to ban Internet access at the workplace as they find the "freedom" given to staff members too costly.
Fashion retailer Voir Holdings Bhd recently banned employees from going online after 5% of its employees were caught using office computers to access Facebook and other networking sites. This did not include those tweeting on their mobile phones.
Its managing director Ham Hon Kit said in an interview that his company might risk losing up to RM2.4mil a year if employees spent two work hours a day on such sites.
"Any delay in work, even by one employee, can affect the performance of the rest. The company may also lose business deals," he said, adding that employees whose work required them to go online did not come under the ban.
Cuepacs recently advised civil servants against accessing Facebook or similar sites during office hours following complaints that some were being distracted from their work.
Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan said employers should learn from the experience overseas and ban their staff members from visiting social networking sites during office hours.
He said it was wrong for employees to use company facilities or their own gadgets to go onto Facebook or Twitter during office hours, adding that some even went to the extent of badmouthing their employers in their postings.
According to British employment website MyJobGroup.co.uk, company staff who spent an hour daily on social networking sites during work cost British businesses £14bil (RM67.2bil) a year.
Its poll also revealed that 6% or two million of Britain's 34 million workers spent an hour each day on social media sites.
A study by IT staffing agency Robert Half Technology showed that 54% of companies in the United States had banned their workers from using sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedln and MySpace during working hours.
Another 19% allowed social networking strictly for business purposes while a further 16% had "limited personal use".
However, not all local businesses are against the use of social networking sites.
Retailer SenHeng Electric (KL) Sdn Bhd managing director Lim Kim Heng said there was no ban for its 1,250 employees because it had yet to pose a threat.
"About 25% of my staff have Facebook accounts. Social networking is the lifestyle of the new generation, particularly those below 30 years old."
Four people were killed after a bloody altercation took place over a 1 yuan (45 sen) parking charge in China's Yangpu district.
Shanghai police have detained a suspect after four men were stabbed to death Wednesday night at a residential complex in Yangpu district, Shanghai Daily reported Friday.
The dead include the keeper of the complex's moped shed, Liu Haihao, and three men who fought with him.
They had an argument with Liu as they suspected that he was overcharging. Liu demanded 1 yuan for each moped while the others maintained that each moped should only be charged 0.5 yuan.
"'Help, help!' I just heard the screaming after 10 pm," a resident at the complex on Siping Road was quoted as saying.
Investigators were trying to figure out who stabbed whom in the dark.
When police arrived at the spot, three bodies were lying on the ground. Another man was seen with a knife sticking into his stomach and he died after being taken to Changhai Hospital.
John Shepherd-Barron, a Scotsman who invented the automated teller machine, has died in Scotland, a funeral director said. He was 84.
Alasdair Rhind, the funeral director, confirmed the death of Shepherd-Barron, who lived in the Scottish coastal town of Portmahomack, but did not know the cause, The New York Times reported.
Shepherd-Barron invented the ATM in the 1960s after becoming frustrated because he could not cash a check because his bank branch was closed.
"That night I started thinking that there must be a better way to get cash when I wanted it," Shepherd-Barron told the BBC on the 40th anniversary of his invention. "I thought of the chocolate vending machine where money was put in a slot and a bar dispatched. Surely money could be dispensed the same way."
With the opening of the first cash dispenser at a Barclays bank north of London in 1967, customers could withdraw up to $14 using a check with an identification number encoded.
Shepherd-Barron received the Order of the British Empire "as the inventor of the automatic cash dispenser."
Today, more than 1.7 million ATMs operate worldwide, the ATM Industry Association said.
Shepherd-Barron, born June 23, 1925, in India to Scottish parents, had worked for De La Rue Instruments, which provides the paper and prints many of the world's currencies.
He is survived by his wife, Caroline, sons Nicholas, James and Andrew and six grandchildren.
Seto Mulyadi, advisory chairman of the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas Anak), said the two-year-old had fully recovered from his addiction after a month-long rehabilitation program, involving both the commission, pyschologists and doctors.
Ardi, who shocked the world when a video of him smoking a cigarette appeared on the Internet, had been handed over to authorities to authorities in his home province of South Sumatra.
Komnas Anak secretary general Samsul Ridwan was quoted by Kompas.com as saying the government must take responsible measures and protect children from the dangers of smoking, saying the emergence of child smokers in Indonesia was an "undeniable phenomenon."
He said protection from smoking should be given the same urgency as other threats, including child abuse, exploitation and human trafficking.
Four-year-old Adi (previously known as Sandi), a former foul-mouthed, smoking toddler from East Java made infamous by another YouTube video, has also been recently rehabilitated.
Antitobacco advocates are have been critical of Indonesia's vast tobacco industry, claiming cigarette advertisements target children - Jakarta Post
A Muslim non-governmental organisation said the banning of non-Muslims from mosques only puts Islam in a negative light.
"We strongly feel that disallowing non-Muslims from entering mosques only portrays a negative image of Islam and is not in line with the examples set by the Prophet," said Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) founder and chairman Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa in a statement.
He pointed out that Prophet Muhammad had allowed Christians to pray in his mosque in Medina.
Malay rights group Perkasa recently demanded that syariah laws be created to bar non-Muslims from entering Muslim places of worship while the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS) yesterday banned all non-Muslims from entering the prayer areas of suraus or mosques in Selangor.
This follows the controversy surrounding Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching's (picture) recent visit to a surau in her constituency.
Ahmad Farouk said non-Muslims should be allowed to enter mosques as long as they do not violate the sanctity of the house of worship and dressed modestly.
"They should also be allowed to deliver speeches, provided that the speech is in line with the spirit of enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil," he said.
Teo received a warning letter from MAIS yesterday stating that she needed to obtain its permission before visiting any surau or mosque in Selangor.
It is understood that the warning letter was issued on the orders of the Sultan of Selangor after the uproar over her August 22 visit to the Al-Huda surau in Kajang Sentral which was highlighted by Umno-owned newspaper Utusan Malaysia.
The National Fatwa Council, however, had decided on March 1 that non-Muslim tourists may enter mosques and prayer rooms on the condition that they receive permission from the respective management and ensure that their actions do not violate the sanctity of the mosque.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders including PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat have defended Teo over her surau visit that was heavily criticised by Umno and Perkasa.
Teo has maintained that she did not touch on politics during her speech at the surau and said she had visited the surau to deliver aid.
Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali however accused Nik Aziz of failing to defend Islamic principles by backing Teo.
Meanwhile, former Perlis mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin has advised Muslims not to use the non-Muslims in mosques issue to win political points.
Asri said such an action would only tarnish Islam's image.
IRF is a Muslim think-tank and research-based institution that was launched in December last year to promote intellectual discourse related to Islam.
GERIK: Walaupun uzur dan terpaksa berjalan menggunakan bantuan tongkat, seorang lelaki berusia 55 tahun sanggup menaiki kereta dipandu cucunya dari Kampung Raja, Besut, Terengganu semata-mata mahu mendapatkan bekalan daun ketum dari Kuala Ketil, Kedah.
RAMPAS...Mahad Nor (kiri) menunjukkan daun ketum yang dirampas.
Bagaimanapun, hasrat lelaki berkenaan bersama cucu lelakinya berusia 17 tahun untuk membawa pulang bekalan daun ketum itu ke kampungnya tidak kesampaian apabila ditahan polis dalam satu sekatan jalan raya kira-kira jam 2.10 pagi, Isnin lalu.
Dalam sekatan jalan raya di Kilometer 9, Jalan Raya Timur Barat (JRTB) itu, polis berjaya menemui 80 kilogram daun ketum diisi dalam lapan guni di dalam but kereta dipandu cucu lelaki berkenaan.
Ketua Polis Gerik, Superintendan Mahad Nor Abdullah, berkata pihaknya terpaksa menahan kereta berkenaan yang dalam keadaan mencurigakan sebelum memintas kenderaan itu dan menahannya di tepi jalan raya.
Beliau berkata, sebaik diperiksa, pihaknya mendapati pemandunya tidak mempunyai lesen memandu dan but kereta penuh berisi beberapa guni daun ketum.
"Selepas disoal siasat, lelaki berkenaan mendakwa baru balik dari mengubati kakinya secara tradisional di Kuala Ketil, Kedah manakala cucunya masih bersekolah dalam tingkatan lima di Besut.
"Lelaki berkenaan turut mengaku mendapatkan bekalan daun ketum basah dari Kuala Ketil, Kedah dan membawanya untuk dijual di pasaran tempatan selepas mendapat sambutan menggalakkan sepanjang Ramadan ini," katanya pada sidang media di sini semalam.
Katanya, kedua-dua lelaki itu dibebaskan selepas dijamin polis sebanyak RM2,000 setiap seorang dan akan dibicarakan selepas menerima laporan daripada Jabatan Kimia.
"Kes disiasat didakwa di bawah Seksyen 30 (3) Akta Racun 1952 dan jika sabit kesalahan boleh dipenjara tidak lebih empat tahun atau denda RM10,000," katanya.
Mahad Nor berkata, dalam tempoh tujuh bulan pertama tahun ini, pihaknya berjaya menumpaskan sindiket pengedaran dadah di Gerik dan Lenggong dengan tertangkapnya seramai 708 orang.
"Daripada jumlah itu, lapan daripadanya didakwa mengikut Seksyen 39B, Akta Dadah Berbahaya (ADB) Tahun 1952 yang membawa hukuman mandatori gantung sampai mati dan lapan lagi didakwa di bawah Seksyen 12(3) ADB 1952 yang dikenakan hukuman buang daerah.
"Dalam tempoh itu, jumlah keseluruhan rampasan bernilai RM9,085 dengan paling banyak ialah jenis heroin sebanyak 256 gram," katanya. Katanya, pihaknya akan terus membanteras pengedaran dadah ini dan sentiasa membuat pemantauan mengenai kegiatan itu selain berharap mendapat kerjasama daripada orang ramai - myMetro
KUALA LUMPUR - Seorang paderi di Malaysia, Ouyang Wen Fang mengumumkan bahawa dia sedang menubuhkan gereja gay pertama di negara ini.
TINDAKAN seorang paderi menjadikan sebuah gereja di pinggir Kuala Lumpur sebagai tempat untuk mengembangkan budaya gay sangat membimbangkan. - Gambar hiasan
Paderi berusia 40 tahun itu turut tidak mengendahkan amaran keras kerajaan supaya menghentikan rancangannya kerana bimbang ia akan menggalakkan gaya hidup homoseks di negara ini.
Amalan tersebut masih dikategorikan sebagai jenayah di Malaysia yang majoriti penduduknya beragama Islam manakala pelakunya berdepan hukuman penjara sehingga 20 tahun.
Namun, gereja gay yang diasaskan bersama oleh paderi itu telah beroperasi secara senyap di sini sejak tiga tahun lalu dengan dikunjungi kumpulan penganut Kristian gay untuk beribadat pada hari Ahad dan mengkaji kitab Injil.
"Kami sedang berusaha untuk menggalakkan lebih ramai orang supaya menyertai gereja ini, kami mahu penganut Kristian gay tampil dan hidup tanpa berpura-pura," katanya.
Ouyang mendirikan rumah tangga selama sembilan tahun sebelum membuat pengakuan terbuka bahawa dia seorang homoseks pada 2006.
Employees surfing the Internet or chatting on social networking sites during office hours are costing companies of millions of ringgit annually in lost productivity.
