A professional dancer has embraced her individuality after refusing plastic surgery to remove a giant birthmark on her face. Canadian beauty, Cassandra Naud, 22, loves her unique appearance and even credits her birthmark for making her memorable in the dancing world. The pretty brunette, from Alberta, Canada, who was once told by a casting agent to digitally erase her birthmark from her headshots, says: 'My birthmark is a huge part of me. “It makes me unique and memorable, which is especially important for the career I’ve chosen.'
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for this greedy camel he can't get enough of his morning feed, as he gate crashes his owner's mealtime .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .