COMPASS experiment at CERN: hadron spectroscopy and open charm results

During 2008 and 2009, the world leading data sets were collected with hadron beams which are currently being analyzed using Partial Wave Analysis (PWA) technique. COMPASS is performing a search for JPC-exotic mesons, glueballs and hybrids, through light hadron spectroscopy in high energy 190 GeV/c hadron-proton reactions using both centrally produced and diffractive events. Preliminary results from these searches are discussed.