British Court: Assange Can Be Freed on Bail
ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.</s>CHETRY: Fourteen minutes past the hour right now. And we have some breaking news this morning. New developments in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. London's high court has upheld the decision to grant bail to the WikiLeaks founder. He's been fighting extradition to Sweden over allegations of sex crimes. A lower court ruled earlier this week that Assange could be freed on bail under strict conditions. Swedish authorities then appealed that decision, which is why he remained in jail. He is, of course, at the center of the controversy in this country over posting U.S. secret documents online. But again, Julian Assange freed this morning on bail.</s>ROBERTS: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson on a mission to North Korea and CNN's Wolf Blitzer is along with him. Richardson says he hopes that his visit will, quote, "bring down the temperature on the Korean Peninsula." The governor has dealt extensively with North Korea. Now, Richardson won't be officially representing the United States but he does expect that Pyongyang will use him to deliver some sort of message to the Obama administration.</s>CHETRY: Check out the video. It's been just released by NASA, the massive explosion that rocked the sun back in August. Scientists dubbed it at the time the "Great Eruption." And they have now been studying this solar event for the past few months. They say that this explosion ended up covering half of the sun's surface, that it lasted for 28 hours. NASA hopes that the data can be used to help forecast future solar disturbances.</s>ROBERTS: So, there you go. You're wondering why it's so cold? It's because the sun blew up. There you go.</s>CHETRY: Exactly.</s>ROBERTS: "People" magazine looking back at the biggest pop culture moments of the year. Can you guess who they picked as their Woman of the Year?