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 soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
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HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .