Thursday: Day in photos - Netherlands

Workers place a wax figure of President George W. Bush with suitcases outside Madame Tussauds museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands as a figure of a smiling President-elect <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic" title="Barack Obama" id="PEPLT007408">Barack Obama</a>, left, sits in a window display. Five days before his <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="/topic/politics/government/presidents-of-the-united-states/obama-inauguration-%282008%29-EVHST0000111.topic" title="Obama Inauguration (2008)" id="EVHST0000111">inauguration</a>, Obama's figure was also unveiled at Madame Tussauds in London, Berlin, New York and Las Vegas.

Evert Elzinga / Associate Press / January 15, 2009

Workers place a wax figure of President George W. Bush with suitcases outside Madame Tussauds museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands as a figure of a smiling President-elect Barack Obama, left, sits in a window display. Five days before his inauguration, Obama's figure was also unveiled at Madame Tussauds in London, Berlin, New York and Las Vegas.

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