A sand sculpture on a beach in Puri, India, congratulated President Obama for winning a second term in office. Look through for more images of people around the world reacting to the US election results.

Indian students reacted to results on television networks during an event organized by the US embassy at the Imperial Hotel in New Delhi.

A person holding a bowl of porridge celebrated in front of a poster of President Obama in the sprawling Kibera slums of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

A butcher posed in front of his “Maison Blanche” (White House) butchery, whose sign bore a picture of President Obama in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Men wearing masks of the presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney attended an election night party in Berlin. Under the motto “Election Night Party with Democrats abroad’’ supporters of Obama followed the US presidential election.

A young woman posed for a photo with a cutout of President Obama, beside another Mitt Romney, during an election night event organized by the US embassy in Skopje, Macedonia.

Palestinians at a barber shop in the West Bank town of Jenin watched a televised speech by President Obama after his victory.

An editor read a copy of the Suryakal Evening Gujarati Daily Press, which used a front-page photograph of President Obama after his reelection, in Ahmedabad, India.

Students held a poster of President Obama as they watched the US election tally at SDN 01 Menteng elementary school in Jakarta. Obama attended the school when he was a child living in Indonesia.

People’s heads were silhouetted in front of a US electoral map displayed at the US embassy in Skopje, Macedonia.

Indian Muslim students posed for photographs near cutouts of President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney during an event organized by the US Embassy in Chennai, India.

Indonesian student Anisa Widya Lestari, 20, held a US flag at a poll monitoring center set up by the US embassy in Jakarta. Surveys indicated Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, favored Obama.

People celebrated the reelection of President Obama at the sprawling Kibera slums of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

Indian students celebrated next to a cardboard cutout of President Obama during an event organized by the US Embassy at the Imperial Hotel in New Delhi, India.

Indian kite maker Jagmohan Kanojia showed his mini-kites with pictures of reelected President Obama and US flags in Amritsar, India. Kanojia said he made the kites to congratulate Obama on winning the elections on behalf of India.

An American supporter of President Obama sported a T-shirt with the phrase “Bangalore has hope’’ during a screening of US elections coverage in Bangalore, India.

Indian painter Jagjot Singh Rubal gave final touches to a painting of President Obama, which he plans to mail to Obama as a gift.

Indian kitemaker Jagmohan Kanojia displayed miniature kites adorned with images President Obama in Amritsar.

Indian artist Mahendra Jayantilal Kadia put the final touches to a painting dedicated to President Obama in Ahmedabad.

A spread of Belgian newspapers is shown in Brussels on the morning after the US elections. Faced with U.S. election results coming after printing deadlines, Belgian newspapers found novel ways around the problem. Het Laatste Nieuws, middle left, produced two front pages, asking readers to “pick your cover.” One was headlined “It’s Obama” while another, folded inside, read “It’s Romney.” De Morgen, bottom right, cut its front page in half, with one side saying “Mitt Romney President” and the other “Barack Obama President.” On the Romney side it said “Please turn quickly if Obama is the winner.” Le Soir’s front page, top left, screamed “Obama,” followed on the left with “Has Lost, read page 2” and on the right “Has Won, read page 3.” Sports newspaper La Derniere Heure, top right, left the face blank and instead provided a scan code to download the winner onto a cellphone.

Villagers raised their bicycles in the air to celebrate Obama’s reelection, in the village of Kogelo, home to Sarah Obama the step-grandmother of President Obama, in western Kenya.

A man walked past TV screens portraying President Obama, in a store in Pamplona, northern Spain.

A man read a Spanish newspaper with the smiling portrait of President Obama on the front page, in Pamplona northern Spain.

A shop assistant watched President Obama speaking on TV screen in Moscow TV shop in Russia.

Angelique Fernandez of New York, second from right, with her friend Sidney Ross, second from left, both supported President Obama react to early election results during the Presidential Election party at the US Embassy in London.