June 9, 2008: Today in Pictures

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June 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.

It may not be the first day of summer yet but try telling that to Chase Sitten, who practices punting the ball in Monday's hot and cloudless sky at Atlanta's Lakeside High School where he graduated this year. Atlanta's 98 degree temperature broke a record for the day.

On Monday two men offer prayer for victims of Sunday's knifing rampage where seven people were stabbed to death at Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district. Tomohiro Kato is accused of ramming pedestrians with a truck and then stabbing 17 bystanders.

On Monday a Douglas County Sheriff's SWAT team member arrives on the scene where investigators with the U.S. Marshals Service attempted to serve a Paulding County warrant to David Spence for aggravated stalking. The standoff began around 5 a.m. and ended around 4:30 p.m.

A security guard pauses for a smoke near sandbags piled up against the glass wall of a bank in Mianyang, southwestern China's Sichuan province, on Monday. A quarter of a million residents have been ordered to higher ground as precaution against the bursting of the Tangjiashan quake lake.

Allison Brown and her daughter Alea, 5, get a dose of water from the fountain spray at the Suwanee Town Center Park on Monday while celebrating Alea's birthday. Atlanta reached 98 degrees today, breaking a 13-year-old record by one degree.

Spectators cheer at the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City on Sunday.

LPGA rookie Yani Tseng, of Taipei, Taiwan, reacts after making a birdie at the 18th hole to defeat Maria Hjorth in a four -hole tie breaker at the McDonald's LPGA Championship in Havre de Grace, Maryland, on Sunday.

Holding hands, Mike and Nancy Strawn (left) swim alongside a whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta on Sunday. The Strawn family was part of the first group to participate in a new program that costs $190 a person to swim and $290 a person to dive in the big fish tank.

UGA Bulldogs' third baseman Ryan Peisel, who just hit a solo homerun, reacts as teammate Gordon Beckman follows it up with another one of his own for a 15-3 lead over the Wolfpack in their NCAA Division 1 Super Regional championship game in Athens on Sunday. Georgia won to advance to the College World Series.

Passengers line up at a railway station to get tickets during a transportation strike in Jammu, India, on Monday.

On Sunday, David Shepard removes a stuffed king salmon from his flooded Edinburgh, Ind. home. As much as 11-inches of rain swamped the state.

A cloud formation moves over Oconomowoc, Wis., on Sunday. Heavy rains, wind damage and areas of flooding were reported.

On Monday people stroll past giant soccer shoes decorated with the colors of countries participating in the Euro 2008 European Soccer Championships outside a Vienna, Austria, museum complex.

An anti-narcotic police squad member covers his face in front of a burning hut during a raid to destroy a coca laboratory near Tumaco, Colombia, on Sunday. Nearly 30,000 hectares (over 74,131 acres) of coca fields have been fumigated or manually eradicated and more than 130 laboratories destroyed in southern Colombia so far this year.

Lakers guard Kobe Bryant can't reach the ball on a pass near the basket during action against the Celtics in Game 2 of the NBA Finals in Boston on Sunday.

As the sun streams thru a portal at Turner Field, Braves' starting pitcher Jo-Jo Reyes delivers a pitch to a Phillies batter in the fourth inning on Saturday. The Braves were swept by Philadelphia over the weekend.

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It may not be the first day of summer yet but try telling that to Chase Sitten, who practices punting the ball in Monday's hot and cloudless sky at Atlanta's Lakeside High School where he graduated this year. Atlanta's 98 degree temperature broke a record for the day.

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