July 9, 2008: Today in Pictures

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July 9, 2008: Today in Pictures

Today's best photos: around the world in pictures is a daily look at photos from Atlanta, national and world news, entertainment, sports and celebrities through the eyes of photographers from ajc.com and other sources.

An uprooted pine near Lawrenceville remains resting upon a home on Chandler Road Wednesday morning after it crashed during Tuesday afternoon and evening's storms. Gwinnett Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge said a woman in the house was treated at the scene for minor injuries, but several small children escaped injury.

Rejuvenation, a spa in downtown Atlanta, offers the ultimate in relaxation with massage, yoga classes and private napping pods. Spa director Carol McNeill helps Ann Wagner of Alpharetta get comfortable in the Alpha pod before a 20-minute nap.

An archaeologist Wednesday brushes the well preserved head of a recently unearthed Roman female sculpture in the archaeological site in Skupi, just northwest of Macedonia's capital Skopje. The sculpture, dating from the second century, has been found in a Roman bath and named The Shy Goddess Venus.

A Bosnian Muslim weeps as she searches for her relative among coffins of Srebrenica victims displayed at a Memorial center in Potocari near Srebrenica, Wednesday. The 307 bodies were excavated from mass graves in eastern Bosnia and were identified as Muslims killed by Bosnian-Serb forces. Troops massacred up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men after capturing Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Gunnar Tahtinen walks Valentino (left) and Romeo (right) along the shores of the Chattahoochee River in Cobb County on Tuesday.

A bomb expert of the Turkish police carries a suspected parcel after he checked it with a remote-controlled robot in the city center in Ankara, Wednesday. Men armed with pistols and shotguns attacked a police guard post outside the U. S. consulate in Istanbul, sparking a gunbattle that left three officers and three attackers dead.

Wearing an old-style hockey mask and a USA jersey Willie Fortugno, 8, of Alpharetta, tries to get autographs of Atlanta Thrashers' rookies, such as goaltender Ryan Daniels (right), after the first day of the Thrashers' rookie camp at the Duluth Ice Forum Tuesday. Fortugno and other friends and family came to see Niclas Lucenius, whom they used to know when the Fortugnos lived in Pennsylvania.

DeKalb fire Capt. Jeff Crump puts away hose on the bed of Engine 7 while DeKalb County authorities are investigating an early-morning house fire on Yucca Drive that claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy Wednesday.

Bowls of colored water await the flight and occasional landing of ping-pong balls at a midway game at the Logan County Fair in Bellefontaine, Ohio, on Tuesday.

A model displays a creation designed by Dutch-Chinese fashion designer Hu Shequang during Hong Kong Fashion Week for spring/summer i Hong Kong Wednesday.

A young Gentoo penguin calls for food at the Vivarium of the zoo in Basel, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Battery, Fires Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment, prepare to search a classroom during Operation Fires Festung in Qubah, north of Baghdad, in Iraq's volatile Diyala province on Wednesday. U.S. troops secured the outskirts of Qubah as Iraqi Army troops swept through the primarily Shiite town, which had been overrun by al-Qaida.

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An uprooted pine near Lawrenceville remains resting upon a home on Chandler Road Wednesday morning after it crashed during Tuesday afternoon and evening's storms. Gwinnett Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge said a woman in the house was treated at the scene for minor injuries, but several small children escaped injury.

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