RACING down the slopes in her tiny ski gear, this TWO-YEAR-OLD girl has already mastered the art of skiing. Aurora Burns, of Girdwood, Alaska, is now more at home on a snowy mountainside than inside a sandpit. Her parents, Cody Burns, 29, and Andrea Peterson, 34, insist their daughter is destined to take off. Cody, a ski patrol night supervisor, says: “Aurora has been skiing since she was in the womb as Andrea was still keen to ski throughout her pregnancy, and we were showing her ski films as soon as she arrived.
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
