In Washington, D.C., a group of African immigrants celebrate Barack Obama‘s election by singing in Amharic while waving a U.S. flag. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)
A schoolboy in New Delhi stretches to kiss a cut-out of Barack Obama. (Mustafa Quraishi / Associated Press)
A sand sculpture of Barack Obama, created by Sudarshan Pattnaik, adorns the beach in Puri, India. (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)
A U.S. Embassy staffer mixes campaign buttons for the presidential candidates during a mock election conducted at a shopping mall in Manila, Philippines. The mock election was held before the results of the U.S. election were known. (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)
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A man in Nairobi, Kenya, holds a local newspaper reporting Barack Obama’s election. Obama’s late father was Kenyan. (Sayyid Azim / Associated Press)
At Barack Obama’s former school in Jakarta, Indonesia, a student reacts to the news that Obama had won the presidency. (Ed Wray / Associated Press)
Nouridine Seye cheers as he watches U.S. election results broadcast on a French news channel in Dakar, Senegal. (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press)
Americans and Japanese residents in the town of Obama, Japan, celebrate Barack Obama’s victory. Obama means “little beach” in Japanese; the city, population 32,000, is a former fishing town that now relies almost entirely on tourism. Local leaders created an “Obama for Obama” supporters group to promote tourism. (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)
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British newspapers spotlight the U.S. election. (Martin Cleaver / Associated Press)
