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Published July 30, 2014, 6:28 p.m. ET

Xiao Liwu, a male giant panda, checks out his birthday cake - actually ice topped with a big ice 2 and filled with favorite treats including apples, carrot and yam slices - as he turns two years old Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at the San Diego Zoo. Xiao Liwu's (pronounced sshyaoww lee woo) four-foot-tall, 100-pound cake was made by the Zoos nutritional services team. Xiao Liwu appeared to specifically enjoy the pieces of sliced apples, carrots and yams atop the cake, then patiently waited for the ice to melt so he could eat the fruit frozen into the ice tiers. The San Diego Zoo is home to three giant pandas: Xiao Liwu, his mother, Bai Yun and father, Gao Gao. Giant pandas are on a research loan to the San Diego Zoo from the Peoples Republic of China. (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo, Ken Bohn)

Giant panda Xiao Liwu checks out his birthday cake in the San Diego Zoo. AP

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk near Israeli army tanks near the border with Gaza July 30, 2014. Israeli fire killed at least 43 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday as the Jewish state said it targeted Islamist militants at dozens of sites across the coastal enclave, while Egyptian mediators prepared a revised ceasefire proposal. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (ISRAEL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT RELIGION POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk near Israeli army tanks near the Gaza border. Reuters

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A Buddha statue in Ittre, Belgium, is covered in mud after a storm. Reuters

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A Palestinian woman mourns inside a Gaza morgue. Reuters

Tourists view the Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry on a clear and cool day in New York Harbor, July 30, 2014. The entire eastern half of the U.S. was feeling unseasonably cool temperatures Wednesday as a jet stream from Canada dipped as far south as Alabama according to the National Weather Service. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRAVEL SOCIETY)

Tourists view the Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry. Reuters

Codepink activists, dressed to symbolize those wounded and killed in Gaza, rally outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, July 30, 2014. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Codepink activists protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Reuters

Protesters take part in a demonstration against violence in the Gaza strip, before the third qualifying round of the Champions league soccer match between Maribor and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Maribor, July 30, 2014. The banner reads, "Freedom to Palestine". REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic (SLOVENIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SPORT SOCCER POLITICS)

Protesters demonstrate against violence in Maribor, Israel. Reuters

Soldiers are reflected in a pool during a medal ceremony at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh

Soldiers are reflected in a pool during a medal ceremony at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30, 2014. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN – Tags: SPORT DIVING MILITARY)

A Samaritan's Purse team member speaks to community members about the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia in this undated handout photo courtesy of Samaritan's Purse. An isolation unit for Ebola victims in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, is overrun with cases and health workers are being forced to treat up to 20 new patients in their homes, government officials said on July 30, 2014. REUTERS/Samaritan's Purse/Handout via Reuters (LIBERIA - Tags: HEALTH DISASTER SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES

A volunteer speaks to community members about Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia. Reuters

HICKSTEAD, WEST SUSSEX - JULY 30: Iwan Carpenter receives hug from his mum Amanda as he sits on Brookehall Glimpse after competing at the Royal International Horse Show on July 30, 2014 in Hickstead, England. The Longines Royal International Horse Show sees the top eight countries in the world compete for the biggest inter-nation showjumping prize. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

A child gets a hug from his mom at the Royal International Horse S how in West Sussex, UK. Getty

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 30: U.S. first lady Michelle Obama addresses the Summit of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders July 30, 2014 in Washington, DC. The fellowship was an initiative President Obama announced in 2013 as part of the Young African Leaders Initiative, which was launched in 2010 to support a new generation of African leaders as they work to the growth and prosperity of the continent. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

First Lady Michelle Obama speaks Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Getty

KASHGAR, CHINA - JULY 31: Chinese soldiers ride on the back of a truck as they patrol outside the Id Kah Mosque, China's largest, on July 31, 2014 in Kashgar, China. China has increased security in many parts of the restive Xinjiang province following some of the worst violence in months in the Uyghur dominated area. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Chinese soldiers gather in Kashgar, China, following violence in the area. Getty

A member of the Boilermakers local 154 Pittsburgh holds a sign at a rally to support American energy and jobs in the coal and related industries at Highmark Stadium in downtown Pittsburgh, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The rally is being held the day before the Environmental Protection Agency conducts public hearings on its new emissions regulations for existing coal fired power plants. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pro-coal protesters picket outside Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh. AP

Rescue workers carry the body of a victim at the site of a landslide in Malin village, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Torrential rains triggered a massive landslide that buried a remote village in western India on Wednesday, killing more than a dozen people as it swept away scores of houses and possibly trapping many more people under debris, officials said. (AP Photo)

Rescue workers help a landslide victim in Maharashtra, India. AP

Palestinian medics take a break after carrying wounded people injured from an Israeli strike in Shijaiyah neighborhood, into the emergency room at Gaza City's Shifa hospital, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Israeli strikes hit a crowded shopping area in the neighborhood, hours after tank shells tore through the walls of a U.N. school crowded with war refugees Wednesday in the deadliest of a series of air and artillery attacks that push the Palestinian death toll above 1,300 in more than three weeks of fighting. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Palestinian medics take a break in Gaza City. AP

President Barack Obama greets the crowd after speaking about the economy, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

President Barack Obama greets a Kansas City crowd. AP

Vehicles are inundated in several feet of water in a parking structure on the UCLA campus after flooding from a broken 30-inch water main under nearby Sunset Boulevard inundated a large area of the campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. The 30-inch (75-centimeter) 93-year-old pipe that broke made a raging river of the street and sent millions of gallons (liters) of water across the school's athletic facilities, including the famed floor of Pauley Pavilion, the neighboring Wooden Center and the Los Angeles Tennis Center, and a pair of parking structures that took the brunt of the damage. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)

Vehicles are covered in several feet of flood waters at UCLA in Los Angeles. AP

A river otter stands up after hitting the waterslide while another one follows at Ichikawa Zoological and Botanical Garden in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Playful otters spend their time swimming and playing in the waterslide that was built two years ago in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the zoo for the mammals to beat the summer heat. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda

An otter plays on a water slide in a Tokyo zoo. AP

The day in photos

The day in photos