Monday: The day in photos

A pedestrian crosses Baldwin Avenue in Sierra Madre. A “red flag mud alert” is in force there because of the heavy rains and the threat of debris flows in foothills damaged by fire last spring.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Martin Luther King III, left, and Mohandas Gandhi’s granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattarcharjee speak at the memorial site where the pacifist icon was assassinated in New Delhi in 1948. King, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., paid tribute to Gandhi at ceremonies Sunday commemorating the 50th anniversary of his own parents’ pilgrimage to India to study nonviolence.  (Mustafa Quraishi / EPA)

An unidentified female competitor skies during an official training session for the Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which continue through Sunday.  (Koji Sasahara / Associated Press)

Shiite pilgrims mark the end of 40 days of mourning for the anniversary of the 7th century death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims throughout Iraq have been traveling by foot, car and bus to Karbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad, for the annual gathering.  (Alaa al-Marjani / Associated Press)

A foreign tourist views skulls of Khmer Rouge victims on display at Choeung Ek Genocidal Center outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A United Nations-backed tribunal this week will put the first of five former Khmer Rouge leaders before a panel of Cambodian and international judges on charges of crimes against humanity.  (Mak Remissa / EPA)

The container ship Marit Maerski makes its way out of the harbor in the northern German city of Hamburg through heavy fog. The 1,200-foot long ship of Danish shipping company Maersk is the longest to have entered the harbor.  (Roland Magunia / AFP/Getty Images)

A picture made available today shows a firefighter at work at the burning ruins of a house in the village of Molodyozny in the Astrakhan region of Russia late Feb. 14. The death toll from the fire in the residential building is at least 16.  (Ria Novosti / EPA)

A South Korean activist participates in a rally denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong ll near Panmunjom at the border separating the two Koreas. North Korea celebrated the 67th birthday of leader Kim, with state media lauding him as a “heaven-made commander” and citizens turning out to dance in the streets of the freezing capital.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)