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• Nov. 5: A vendor sells local newspapers featuring coverage of Sen. Barack Obama's victory in U.S. presidential election in Panama City.
• Nov. 5: Neapolitan nativity scene artisan Genni Di Virgilio, in background, puts a crown on his terracotta statuette of American president-elect Barack Obama, next to his wife Michelle (holding a 'Long Live Obama' sign), in his shop in Naples, southern Italy.
• Nov. 5: Two nuns and a child walk past a poster by the Italian Democratic party showing a picture of president-elect Barack Obama in the American presidential election and reading: 'The World Changes,' in downtown Rome.
• Nov. 5: A close-up view of a terracotta statuette of American president-elect Barack Obama, sculpted by Neapolitan nativity scene artisan Genni Di Virgilio, in his shop in Naples, southern Italy.
• Nov. 5: An unidentified Iranian man decorates his shirt with a badge of U.S. President elect Barack Obama, in Tehran, Iran.
• Nov. 5: A young Chinese girl cheers as she watches a live feed on television of President-elect Barack Obama at a U.S. Presidential election party organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
• Nov. 5: A selection of the front pages of Greek national papers covering Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. Presidential election is seen in Athens.
• Nov. 5: Koichi Morii, an Obama citizen, holds Obama fish burgers, which are sold in the city, to celebrate Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election in Obama, western Japan.
• Nov. 5: Egyptians walk in front of a newspaper fronted by pictures of the U.S. elections and titled 'America elects its first black President' at a coffee shop in Cairo, Egypt.
• Nov. 5: Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges faithful during his weekly general audience in St. Peter square at the Vatican. The Vatican said Wednesday it hoped Barack Obama will work to promote peace and justice in the world.
• Nov. 5: Indonesian school children react to the announcement that Barack Obama won the election for the U.S. Presidency at Obama's former school in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Nov. 5: Supporters of United States Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, celebrate as they watch a TV broadcast predicting his victory in the state of Ohio, during an election party in the U.S. embassy in central London.
• Nov. 5: Students pose for photographs with a cut-out of President-elect Barack Obama at a function to celebrate the election of the new U.S. President in New Delhi, India.
• Nov. 5: Members of the al-Basra band play music as they celebrate Barack Obama's U.S. electoral victory, in central Basra, Iraq.
• Nov. 5: Kenyans in Kisumu, Western Kenya, celebrate the victory of president-elect Barack Obama in the American presidential election. Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent celebrated his victory.
• Nov. 5: Senegalese Barack Obama supporter Nouridine Seye points to a photo of the U.S. presidential candidate affixed to his car, as he celebrates during a break from watching U.S. election results in Dakar, Senegal.