ATLAS status and highlights

With the successful first collisions at world-record energies in 2009 and 2010 (up to 7 TeV centre of mass energy) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a new era has started for accelerator-based particle physics. After a successful commissioning period, A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (ATLAS) is currently collecting data from the LHC collisions and first analyses are under way for the initial energies of 0.9, 2.36 and 7 TeV. A report will be made on the status and performance of the ATLAS detector as of June 2010. First agreement with Standard Model signals and parameters will be presented and compared to current limits and Monte Carlo predictions at LHC energies. Recent results from the ongoing 2010/2011 proton-proton physics run will be presented. Finally, expectations for 2010 and preparation for higher luminosity in 2011(~10^32 cm^-2s^-1) will be discussed.