Today in Pictures: May 2, 2012

President Barack Obama offers a birthday cake to a reporter during the return flight from his trip to Afghanistan, May 2, 2012. Obama flew into Kabul in secret in the dead of night and signed a deal with President Hamid Karzai, cementing 10 years of US aid for Afghanistan after NATO combat troops leave in 2014. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images )