Monday: Day in photos

Umbrellas were required gear as a late winter storm blanketed much of the Eastern U.S. Here, a commuter rides the escalator down into a Metro train station in northwest Washington, D.C.  (Matthew Cavanaugh / EPA)

More than 70 countries and international organizations meeting in Egypt pledged nearly $5 billion to rebuild the Gaza Strip, where areas such as Jabaliya, pictured, show the destruction wrought by the 22-day Israeli incursion.  (Ali Ali / EPA)

Designer Karl Lagerfeld appears at the end of the presentation of Fendi’s women’s designs during Milan Fashion Week in Italy.  (Giulio Di Mauro / EPA)

Alex Rodriguez kisses his 4-year-old daughter, Natasha, during a break from practicing with the Dominican Republic team, which is training in Jupiter, Fla., for the World Baseball Classic.  (Jeff Roberson / Associated Press)

Preparations continue in advance of this week’s CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany. More than 4,300 exhibitors from 69 countries will present their information and telecommunications technology products from Tuesday through Sunday, March 3-8.  (Jens Ressing / EPA)

Andreas Matt (red) and Thomas Zangerl (yellow), both of Austria, and Davey Barr (blue) and Christopher DelBosco (green), of Canada, compete at the FIS Freestyle World Championships in Inawashiro, Japan.  (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)

The snowstorm that hit the Eastern U.S. made for a chilly perch in Charlotte, N.C.  (Streeter Lecka / Getty Images)

Before the art lovers arrive, a workman clears snow from the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Dickens bounded around in a dickens of a snowstorm. New Yorkers woke up Monday to a late winter snowstorm that was expected to blanket the metropolitan region in more than a foot of snow.  (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

Palestinians stand on the balcony of their damaged house in the southern Gaza Strip. International donors announced pledges for rebuilding Gaza. CNN reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today the United States had pledged more than $900 million to help the Palestinian people, particularly those in Gaza.  (Eyad Baba / Associated Press)

Palestinians crowd in for food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza.  (Hatem Moussa / Associated Press)

Crews head out to sea in the German tall ship the Gorch Fock for a 2 1/2-month voyage that will take it past the northern Arctic Circle.  (Maurizio Gamarini / EPA)

Members of the South Korean liberal Democratic Party try to break through a police cordon to enter through the windows of the National Assembly in Seoul. Rivals the Grand National Party and the Democratic Party agreed today that they would put to a vote bills on revisions of media-ownership rules after deliberating on them for 100 days in a special body that included civic groups, experts and citizens.  (Jeon Heon-Kyun / EPA)

A Cambodian farmer waters his vegetables on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.  (Heng Sinith / Associated Press)