The FINANCIAL -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, which caused a supernova seen in a nearby galaxy. The finding yields new observational data for pinpointing one of several scenarios that trigger such outbursts, according to NASA.

The FINANCIAL -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago, according to NASA.

The FINANCIAL -- The American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics has honored Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate with the Von Karman Lectureship in Astronautics, according to NASA.

The FINANCIAL -- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, condemned today the sentencing of Ales Barazenka, an independent Belarusian cameraman, to 11 days’ imprisonment for "participating in an unsanctioned event", according to OSCE.

The FINANCIAL -- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé in Paris on 11 January 2012, from OSCE.