VIDEO: White House officials are worried that unless more American students study math and science the United States won’t be able to compete with China, India and other nations. The U.S. administration has just published a five-year plan to boost the number of kids who go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, or STEM subjects.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On March 4, 2005, billionaire lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is released from federal prison after serving five months for lying about selling shares of ImClone, a pharmaceutical company, in 2001. Stewart sold around 4,000 shares of the stock just before the stock tanked. ImClone was run by her friend Sam Waskal. Waskal was convicted of insider training and sentenced to seven years in prison. After Stewart’s release, she remained under house arrest for five more months in her 153-acre estate outside New York City.

Qatar’s foreign minister Monday appeared upbeat about “a successful” conclusion of negotiations his country is hosting between the United States and the Taliban to help find a political settlement to the war in Afghanistan.

VIDEO: In 1981, photographer Bud Glick made his way to Manhattan’s Chinatown with a camera in hand and a plan to document life there. He was attracted to the people in Chinatown, who were reluctant to let a stranger into their largely closed-off world. But that all changed when residents began seeing Glick’s photographs.

VIDEO: Ethiopian activist Yetnebersh Nigussie lost her sight at the age of five, but she has not let her disability slow her down. A tireless advocate for people with disabilities in Africa, she has received prestigious prizes, including the Spirit of Helen Keller Award and the Alternative Nobel Prize.

The Kremlin had hoped that by fomenting a separatist insurgency in east Ukraine’s Donbas region, Ukraine could be snapped back into the Russian orbit, but the strategy appears to have backfired, say analysts.