Viva Obama

Palestinian bakers sell Obama bread following the US senator's victory in the US presidential election at a bakery in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Students reach out to kiss a cutout of U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the American Centre in New Delhi November 5, 2008. India hailed the election of Obama as the next U.S. president on Wednesday, saying his "extraordinary journey" to the White House would inspire people not only in his country but around the world.

People take photographs of a sand sculpture of U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at Prui beach in eastern Indian November 5, 2008.


An Indian artist makes a painting of American president elect Barack Obama and Mahatma Gandhi to mark the victory of Obama in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008.

Palestinian painter Waleed Ayyoub adds the last touches on a painting he drew of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008.

Local people stand near a painting featuring U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama, center, alongside, from left, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, current U.S. President George W. Bush and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during a gathering of people in Kogelo village, Kenya, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008.

Robert Kraybill of New York wears a T-shirt in support of U.S. presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the American Club in Singapore November 5, 2008. The Chinese characters on the T-shirt read "obama".

Indonesians passes a giant poster of U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 at Obama's former school in Jakarta, Indonesia.

An Indonesian woman in a shopping mall looks over giant posters of U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 at Obama's former school in Jakarta, Indonesia.

College students cheer while posing with a cutout of U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the American Centre in New Delhi November 5, 2008.

A man points to a cut-out of U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) during a news conference at Obama's ancestral home in Nyangoma Kogelo village, 430km (267 miles) west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 5, 2008.

Students hold placards to celebrate the victory of U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in Multan November 5, 2008. Obama's victory fostered hopes in Pakistan that the United States would become less overbearing towards its ally in the war on terrorism, and nurture the country's recent return to civilian-led democracy.