Obama, With the World Watching

Photographs by Charles Ommanney / Getty Images for Newsweek
Polls at home showed the race between John McCain and Barack Obama still tight -- but the photographs of the week told a different story. Germans seemed to embrace the Illinois senator as America's next leader, and crowds gathered to bask in his charismatic personality and his message of a change in America's relations with the world.

Here, Obama arrives at the military section of Berlin's Tegel airport; his previous stop had been in Israel.