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.'
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
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COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .