A sand sculpture of United States presidential candidates John McCain [Images] and Barack Obama [Images], created by sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik, at a beach in Puri.

Warring White House rivals Obama and McCain hurled themselves into a Herculean last 48 hours of campaigning before the historic elections on November 4.

Photograph: Sanjib Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

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