Friday: The Day In Photos

Performers light up the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics.  (Mike Hewitt / Getty Images)

Artists evoke ancient China during a performance for the Beijing Games’ opening ceremony at the National Stadium.  (Streeter Lecka / Getty Images)

USA athlete Kobe Bryant walks through the National Stadium during the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.  (David Phillip / Associated Press)

Clarissa Chun and her fellow U.S. wrestling teammates take a photo with President Bush as he greets the 2008 U.S. Olympic team at the Fencing Hall in Beijing.  (Mandel Ngan / Associated Press)

Indian police detain a Tibetan monk outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi. More than 1,000 Tibetan exiles protested near the Chinese Embassy in pouring rain, chanting anti-China slogans and demanding freedom for their homeland.  (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)

A Georgian fighter jet fires on separatist South Ossetian troops not far from Tskhinvali. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that most of the breakaway province of South Ossetia had been “liberated” in an overnight offensive and demanded that Russia stop air attacks on Georgian cities.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)

Georgian troops fire rockets at separatist South Ossetian troops not far from Tskhinvali. Georgian forces attacked the Russian-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)

Georgian girls cry as they examine a list of the wounded in the armed conflict between Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists, in the town Gori. Georgia’s National Security Council warned that Moscow and Tbilisi will be in “a state of war” if reports of Russian tanks, military trucks and troops entering South Ossetia prove to be true.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images)

A Texas state trooper is at the scene of a bus accident on U.S. 75 that killed at least 12 people in Sherman, Texas. The charter bus ran off the highway overpass north of Dallas and crashed onto its side on a roadway below.  (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

An aerial view shows the scene of a train accident in Studenka, Czech Republic. The long-distance passenger train from Poland smashed into a collapsed bridge, killing at least six people and seriously injuring 13 others.  (Vladislav Galgonek / Associated Press)

Padraig Harrington of Ireland hits from a bunker on the 12th hole during the second round of the 90th PGA Championship golf tournament at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Mich.  (Michael Conroy / Associated Press)