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A 70-YEAR-OLD woman and her 41-year-old daughter have been arrested after they were found living in a filthy mini-van with 38 cats and newborn kittens. Fox  reports that police were called to check on the homeless family and called in animal control after they found the mini-van stinking of urine and faeces. Alexandra Wingate and her mum, Sharyn Wingate, were living in this filthy van with 38 cats. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Tim Poorman of Fulton County Animal Control told Fox News that he found days-old kittens inside a cup holder and some in the dashboard. “We went through trash for the cats, digging on our hands and knees,” he said. Mum ... Sharyn Wingate. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Daughter ... Alexandra Wingate told police she was a vet. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Police found Alexandra Wingate, 41, in the car. She told police that she was a local vet waiting for her mother. However, police found they had war...

A PREGNANT mother has been charged after police found two injured toddlers chained up in her backyard and six other abused children inside the house. Porucha Phillips, 34, was arrested in San Antonio, Texas after concerned neighbours called cops about 11.45pm Thursday local time to report a crying child. Police discovered a three-year-old girl tied to a door with a dog leash and her two-year-old brother tied to the ground with a metal chain around his ankle. “I would describe it as disgusting,” Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood said of the scene. “It shocks your conscience when you think what kind of individual could treat children, who in my opinion are gifts from God, like this.” Bexar County Sheriff’s Office spokesman James Keith said the restraints were “the same kind of setup you would use for a dog.” Eight abused children were found at this San Antonio, Texas home. Picture: Googlemaps Source: Supplied Two of the children, including one with a...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a trio of Earth-like planets that are the best bet so far for finding life outside our solar system. The three orbit an ultracool dwarf star a mere 39 light years away, and are likely comparable in size and temperature to Earth and Venus, they reported in a study, published in  Nature . “This is the first opportunity to find chemical traces of life outside our solar system,” said lead author Michael Gillon, an astrophysicist at the University of Liege in Belgium. All three planets had the “winning combination” of being similar in size to Earth, “potentially habitable” and close enough so their atmospheres can be analysed with current technology, he told  AFP . Star gazers will need to use the Hubble telescope to gather more information on the new planets. Picture: Supplied. Source: News Limited The find opens up a whole new “hunting ground” for habitable planets, he added. Gallon and colleagues calibrated a 60-centimetre tele...