Today in Pictures, July 28, 2015

Oldest ever captive panda turns 37 in Hong Kong and a safety drone watches over a populated beach in South Korea. These, and more from around the world, in Today in Pictures.

Giant panda Jia Jia eats a bamboo stick next to her cake made of ice and fruit juice to mark her 37th birthday at an amusement park in Hong Kong on July 28, 2015. This makes Jia Jia the oldest giant panda in captivity, ageing the equivalent of more than 100 years old in human terms. Photo: AFP/Philippe Lopez
A public safety drone hovers above Haeundae beach in Busan on July 28, 2015. The Busan city government are using the drone on the popular Haeundae beach as a public safety measure during the school holiday period. Photo: AFP/YONHAP
Canadian Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion in the women's 10m Synchro Platform final at the 16th FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, on July 27, 2015. Photo: EPA/Valdrin Xhemaj
Natalia Ishchenko of Russia performing during the women's Solo Free preliminary round of the Synchronised Swimming events at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, on July 27, 2015. Photo: EPA/Patrick B. Kraemer
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha (left) practicing his cycling for the Bike For Mom event, before the weekly Cabinet meeting, at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 28 2015. The cycling event will be held on Aug 16, 2015, to celebrate the 83rd birthday of Thai Queen Sirikit. Photo: EPA/Narong Sangnak
Members of the Kurdish community holding a rally outside the Turkish embassy to protest against the Turkish air force attacks on the PKK military campaigns in Syria and northern Iraq, in Paris, France, on July 27, 2015. Photo: EPA/Ian Langsdon
A Palestinian boy standing amidst the rubble of his home in al-Tufah, in the east of Gaza City, on July 27, 2015, during a power outage. Residents of Gaza, home to 1.8 million people, have been experiencing up to 15 hours of electricity outage a day for the past two weeks due to fuel and power shortages. Photo: AFP/Mahmud Hams
Tourists watching the sunrise above a sea of fog on Eggishorn mountain (2,927m above sea level), in Fiesch, Switzerland, early on July 28, 2015. Photo: EPA/Dominic Steinmann
A Humpback whale breaching in Stellwagen Bank in Massachusetts Bay in the United States. Humpback whale populations in the waters of Australia have recovered so well from years of devastating whaling that they could be delisted as a threatened species. Photo: AFP
Female Israeli security forces dragging away an Israeli settler woman during the evacuation of a 24 housing units illegal building site where settlers had barricaded at the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank town of Ramallah, early on July 28, 2015. Photo: EPA/Abir Sultan
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Jan 23, 2016, 06:28 AM
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Jul 28, 2015, 04:29 PM

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