June 20, 2008: Today in Pictures

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June 20, 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.

Investigators work the scene where an 11-year- old girl de-boarding a MARTA bus for summer school was struck and killed by a tow truck in Atlanta on Friday morning. The tow truck reportedly was passing a MARTA bus that had slowed to let the little girl out of the bus and cross.

Murals of Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, honoring their 1858 debates, are nose deep in Mississippi River floodwaters in Quincy, Ill., on Thursday.

Carolyn Baumgartner (left), 70, Dene Hall (center) , 82 and Iris Hassell, 87, show their lighter side during a Laughter Yoga class at Marietta's West Cobb Senior Center on Friday. The ladies are supposed to be pretending to ride bikes - peddling, steering and laughing as they go along on this childlike exercise.

Employees from the Berlin police department, wearing costumes similar to actual police uniforms, take to the water during a protest in support of a salary increase in Berlin on Friday. The slogan is "the water is up to our neck."

Joe Moore (front), 17, works out with a 25-pound weight during conditioning exercises with the Tucker High School football team on Friday morning.

Alexander Artemev performs on the high bar during the first night of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics trials in Philadelphia, Pa., on Thursday.

Adrian Baptiste, 11, warms up before the start of a soccer clinic for 125 boys and girls at Tramore Park in Powder Springs on Friday. Metro Boys & Girls Clubs including some at-risk and disadvantaged kids got a chance to learn soccer skills and moves from representatives of the West Ham United Football Club, which is based in the United Kingdom, but now has a local academy.

Anti-government protesters scuffle with police in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday. The protesters, spearheaded by the People's Alliance for Democracy movement, claim that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's government is a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 military coup.

The Russian tall ship Mir (Peace) sails along St. Petersburg, Russia's Neva River with the Hermitage and St. Isaak's Cathedral in the background early Friday. The Mir is visiting the city during the "white nights" period, when the sun does not set at night.

Passing the time on Decatur's square, Melvin Brown (left) and Andrea Tyrones laugh Friday afternoon about Tyrones' challenge for Brown to go to a nearby police car and turn on its siren as they sit near a bronze statue. The Decatur Beach Party is later Friday night with 60 tons of sand, live music, boardwalk games, and a beach movie.

A Ferrari car is reflected on a firefighter's helmet during the second practice session at the Magny Cours racetrack in central France, on Friday. The French Formula One Grand Prix is scheduled for Sunday.

A Green Iguana shows its face at the National Biodiversity Park near Heredia, Costa Rica, on Thursday.

College student Brittany Durkee works out on a machine in the cardio room at Georgia Gwinnett College's new fitness center in Lawrenceville.

Team USA pitcher Stephen Strasburg, a San Diego State sophomore with a 100 mph fastball and a nasty slider, holds his baseball and glove in the dugout at Fuessenich Park in Torrington, Ct. He has a chance to make Team USA's final roster.

Jabari Bryant, 10, and other North Forke Plantation Barracudas are seen through a mesh netting between heats at their Gwinnett County Swim League meet in Snellville on Thursday.

Instructor Robert Stebbins shows Nick Powell, 14, how to prepare the body before gluing a binding on an wood acoustic guitar at the guitar-making class in Roswell. Starting with a with a kit of preformed wood pieces, the class learns how to assemble, fit, glue and tune their very own homemade guitar.

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Investigators work the scene where an 11-year- old girl de-boarding a MARTA bus for summer school was struck and killed by a tow truck in Atlanta on Friday morning. The tow truck reportedly was passing a MARTA bus that had slowed to let the little girl out of the bus and cross.

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