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.'
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
