Thursday: The day in photos

A wedding photographer’s assistant prepares a bride for a photo shoot in Beijing.  (Elizabeth Dalziel / Associated Press)

A giant picture of a bust of Roman Emperor Vespasian is on display outside the Colosseum in Rome to highlight an exhibition being held inside the Colosseum marking the 2,000th anniversary of the emperor’s birth. Construction of the Colosseum was started under Vespasian and completed in 80 AD. The exhibition opens on Friday and goes through Jan. 10, 2010.  (Domenico Stinellis / Associated Press)

Displaced Sudanese women seek medical treatment at the clinic of the expelled aid group International Rescue Committee at al Salam refugee camp outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan. Aid organizations were expelled in retaliation after an arrest warrant was issued for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes.  (Nasser Nasser / Associated Press)

A police diving team carry out a security search of the Royal Victoria Dock in London near the Excel Centre, the venue for next week’s G-20 economic summit.  (Dominic Lipinski / Associated Press)

The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft sets off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Cmdr. Gennady Padalka of Russia, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station.  (Yuri Kochetkov / EPA)

Swedish yacht Ericsson 3 arrives at Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro. Ericsson 3 won leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race from Qingdao, China, to Rio de Janeiro. The race is the world’s premier ocean yacht race for professional racing crews.  (Antonia Lacerda / EPA)

A supporter of the Golkar Party shouts slogans during a campaign in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. Indonesia will hold its parliamentary election April 9 and presidential elections July 8. Campaigning for Indonesia’s third general elections since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship got under way with the global economic crisis at the forefront of voters’ concerns.  (Adi Weda / EPA)

Supporters of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra hand a bottle of water to an anti-riot police officer outside the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters marched on the office of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, stepping up a campaign to topple his 3-month-old government.  (Nicolas Asfouri / AFP/Getty Images)