‘World’s first’ kitten with no sexual organs discovered

A kitten born without any sexual organs has been discovered in what vets think may be a world first. The kitten, called Hope, is part of an abandoned litter being cared for by the Cats Protection Tyneside adoption centre. Speaking to The Telegraph, Fiona Brockbank, the senior field veterinary officer at Cats Protection, said: “Hope came into care like all other cats who get relinquished and at the point that she had her vet check, underneath her tail just did not look as we would expect for either of the sexes.”

Oldest written sentence found on a nit comb

What is thought to be the “oldest known sentence written in the earliest alphabet” has been discovered on a head-lice comb, reported The Guardian. “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard,” reads the inscription on the comb, which was unearthed in Lachish, a Canaanite city state in the second millennium BCE and the second most important city in the kingdom of Judah. “The inscription is very human,” said Prof Yosef Garfinkel, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who helped direct the Lachish excavations.

‘Hooker’ ghosts haunt Texan home

A Texas homeowner said “hooker” ghosts have taken over her rental property, reported Fox News. Linda Hill said she was taking a shower when she heard someone say “looking good”. She explained: “I thought it was my husband. I mean, he and I were the only ones in the house.” However, she insisted, the voice turned out to be coming from a ghost. She added that the house is actually home to several spooks. “We’ve got kids, and we’ve got old people, old guys, and we’ve got hookers,” she said.

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