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.
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A professional dancer has embraced her individuality after refusing plastic surgery to remove a giant birthmark on her face .
A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .
USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
THIS UNUSUAL collaboration between a mother and her two-year-old daughter makes for some stunning works of art .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
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A woman who blew £12k of her student loan on junk food and booze has lost 10st after ditching her unhealthy habits .