clipped from: www.time.com 
John McCain gets patted down before boarding a plane in March, after a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas.
In pursuit of his seventh gold medal, US Swimmer Michael Phelps (left) races Serbian Milorad Cavic in the 100M Butterfly. Phelps would push past his opponent in the final meter of the race, miraculously beating him by .01 second.
The border fence between the United States and Mexico stretches across the Arizona desert, part of a US project to slow illegal immigration.
A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers during a protest in front of the residence of the country's deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry.
Protesters set the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on fire in February.
A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori, near South Ossetia, Georgia. Five people were killed in the attack.
