Thursday: Day in photos

A model displays a creation by Portuguese designer Alexandra Moura on the first day of ModaLisboa in Cascais, which is on the outskirts of Lisbon. (Francisco Leong / AFP/Getty Images)

March 12, 2009 3:48 PM PT

A Polish soldier patrols the desert near a Sudanese refugee camp in eastern Chad three days before the end of a mandate toward the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT). The government has asked Poland’s president to retain troops in the area after the end of the European Union‘s UN-approved mandate. (Philippe Huguen / AFP/Getty Images)

A man feeds birds in the plaza at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Flowers line the grounds as hearses carrying the bodies of two British soldiers leave the Massereene barracks in Antrim in Northern Ireland. (Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty Images)

An employee sweeps shoes thrown by students from public schools into the street in Corrientes, an Argentine province. Students threw the shoes as a protest toward the province’s educational policy. (Agencia Corrientes / AFP/Getty Images)

Bremen’s Claudio Pizarro leaps for the ball during a Union of European Football Assns. cup round of 16 soccer match against St. Etienne in Bremen, Germany. (Carmen Jaspersen / EPA)