Louisville-based Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Space Systems is reaching across the Atlantic to forge partnerships with the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center that could open new markets and lead to new uses for its Dream Chaser space vehicle, the company announced in a news conference Wednesday. The idea behind the agreements is to apply European aerospace technologies to the Dream Chaser so that it can one day be used for missions beyond simply ferrying crew and cargo to the International Space Station.

We understand that the deadline for Oscar voters to send in their ballots is today, but we’re still more than a little miffed that we missed seeing Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Dern and Richard Gere by a day. A little birdie told us Paramount threw a schmoozefest in the middle of Michael’s dining room yesterday to drum up some Academy love for its pictures — the overly long and ridiculously profane The Wolf of Wall Street and the absolutely brilliant Nebraska. Having a slew of Tinseltown A-listers in their midst gave the regular folks (it’s a relative term, I know) a chance to do some serious stargazing. “It was a bit surreal,” one diner told me. It seems only fitting to us that Hollywood took over the dining room on a day when the rest of Manhattan was in a deep freeze straight out of a disaster movie. The Day After Tomorrow, anyone?

Chobani, maker of America's No. 1–selling Greek Yogurt brand, joins NASDAQ as part of the 3rd annual NASDAQ "Fit Week." The week will feature bell ceremonies by companies that help Americans lead healthier lifestyles. In honor of the occasion, Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO, Chobani rings the Closing Bell.

Amman, 8 January 2014  – Development partners from 18 countries and the EU, meeting in Amman today, agreed that the Kuwait II Pledging Conference for Syria, slated for 15 January 2014, should encompass support for critical development efforts to compliment the humanitarian response to the crisis in Syria and its spill-over impacts on neighbouring countries. The meeting, which brought together partners with long-standing experience and knowledge of the region and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Directors from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey, endorsed UNDP’s Resilience-based Development Response in support of people and communities affected by the Syrian crisis in those five countries.