Abir Abdullah

In today’s pictures, a tailor cuts material for a Buddhist flag in Sri Lanka, men sit blindfolded for a police screening in Somalia, graduates attend a commencement ceremony under heavy rain in Atlanta, and more.

In today’s pictures, boys try to coax a ram into the ocean in Senegal, U.S. soldiers prepare for a night patrol in Afghanistan, a young refugee faces off with Mickey Mouse in Lebanon, and more.

GRRR: A young boy flexed his muscles during a regional bodybuilding competition in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. Bodybuilding is one of the country’s most popular sports. (Johannes Eisele/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

COUNTRY STRONG: A hat was raised in the air during the Stagecoach country music festival at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., Sunday. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/Stagecoach)

LYING OUT: A man slept on a bus Monday in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during the second day of a strike. Authorities charged 44 activists with involvement in bombings and vandalism during the strike, which was called to protest the disappearance of opposition figure Elias Ali. The government denies involvement. (Abir Abdullah/European Pressphoto Agency)

PEEKING OUT: A Chinese People’s Liberation Army naval officer looked out from the missile frigate Yuncheng as the vessel made a port call in Hong Kong Monday as part of a celebration to mark the 15-year anniversary of the hand-over of Hong Kong from Britain to China. (Kin Cheung/Associated Press)

PILED UP: Job seekers waited in front of the training offices of Local Union 46 in Queens, N.Y., Monday. Hundreds of people have been waiting since the state Department of Labor and the union announced that they were looking to hire 50 iron and wood apprentices. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)

Seeking to show how vulnerable an ostensibly up-and-coming modern metropolis is, Abir Abdullah has been chasing the fires that plague Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Photographs from Mexico, Pakistan, Delaware and Tunisia.

ALL ABOARD! Commuters crammed onto a train to travel to their home villages from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday. Millions of Muslims are going to celebrate the Eid festival, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Abir Abdullah/European Pressphoto Agency)

UP AND OVER: Greece’s Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou competed in the women’s pole vault final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Tuesday. (Phil Noble/Reuters)

CHILD’S PLAY: Children played with toy weapons in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday. (Abdurashid Abikar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

LAID-BACK: Rebels inspected the mansion of Moatassem Gadhafi, son of embattled leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday. Rebel leaders are negotiating with regime loyalists over the fate of Col. Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte. (Patrick Baz/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

IN TALKS: Socialist Party presidential candidate Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, left, spoke with a politician during a session of Spanish Parliament in Madrid Tuesday. Lawmakers voted to open deliberations on a proposal that would shore up constitutional budgetary controls. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated Press)

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