This was a week filled with events that demanded quite a work from newsrooms across the globe. The attack to the U.S. embassy in Libya, the launch of the iPhone 5, the 09/11 anniversary and the Presidential race, not to mention all the awesome visualizations created by designers and agencies that came to our attention, make this round-up the biggest so far here on Visual Loop.

So, without further ado, here’s the Interactive Inspiration of this week:

Key election battlegrounds | Financial Times

(edition: Emily Cadman and Martin Stabe; development: Steve Bernard | Financial Times)

Past Attacks on U.S. Targets Abroad | Wall Street Journal

(image: Wall Street Journal)

Presidential campaign stops: Who’s going where | Washington Post

(graphic: Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, Karen Yourish | The Washington Post)

(Via Flowing Data)

The hate crime map of England and Wales | The Guardian

(image: The Guardian)

African elephant populations and densities, 2007 | Tides Foundation

(image: Elephants In Peril | Tides Foundation)

(Seen on GoogleMaps Mania)

Transparency in Argentina | La Nacion

(Via the Tableau Gallery, see it online here).

Wikipedia Gender | Santiago Ortiz

(image: Santiago Ortiz)

(HT to Information Aesthetics)

The differences between the iPhone 5 and the rest| Infobae

(infographic: Ignacio Bello | Infobae)

Holy smokes| Veli.ee

(image: Veli.ee)

What Color is this? in 9 languages | Crowdflower

(image: Dave Oleson and Dawn Ho | CrowdFlower)

(We talked about this one here.)

UK multi-millionaires mapped: where do the wealthy live? | The Guardian

(See the full article here)

Big Art Mob | Art Public

(image: Art Public)

Programming languages influence network | Ramiro Gómez

(image: Ramiro Gómez | GitHub))

Mapping the World’s Friendships | Facebook Stories

(image: Stamen)

(Another that we mentioned here)

The Day the World will never forget | El Tiempo

(infographic: El Tiempo)

WordPress for small businesses | SimplyBusiness

(image: SimplyBusiness)

Cheetah | Jacob O’Neal

(image: Jacob O’Neal)

(And yet another one we talked about recently here)

How old are they? | Periscopic

(image: Periscopic)

Last week’s choices:

ClockMap | Fabian Fischer

(image: Fabian Fischer | Clockmap)

(spotted on Visualizing.org)

Mapping Drug Prevalence | The Guardian

(Picked from the Tableau gallery. See it online here)

NFL Teams’ history | Medio Tiempo

(image: Medio Tiempo)

50 Problems in 50 Days | Peter Smart

(image: Peter Smart | Google Mpas)

(seen on Google Maps Mania)

Wood Changes | Luis Carli and Rafael Passarelli

(image: Luis Carli and Rafael Passarelli | Wood changes )

(Via The Functional Art)

Why We Die | Scientific American

(graphics by Chad Hagen and Jen Christiansen | Scientific American)

(Saw it on Chart Porn)

At the Democratic Convention, the Words Being Used | The New York Times

(image: The New York Times)

That´s how unemployment affects us | LaInformacion

(image: Pablo Gutiérrez | LaInformacion)

The Most Memorable GOP Convention Moments | Engaged

(image: DrasticData | Engaged)

Freedom of the Press 2012 | GreatName

(image: GreatName)

(Seen on GoogleMaps Mania)

Rafael Nadal’s injuries | 20.minutos

(image: Carlos Gámez | 20.Minutos)

Social Recruiting in the USA| Bullhorn Reach

(Another one picked from the Tableau gallery. See it online here)

We’ll be back with another selection of interactive graphics next week. Until then, keep following our updates on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook!