CBS’ ‘The Big Bang Theory’ blossoms into a Monday night hit

September 11th, 2009 Coast Guard drill on Sept. 11 shakes up DCWASHINGTON — A Coast Guard training exercise in the Potomac River near the Pentagon sparked confusion amid Friday's commemorations of the Sept.

July 30th, 2009 Restart of big particle collider now NovemberGENEVA — Repairs to two small helium leaks in the world's largest atom smasher will delay the restart of the giant machine another month until November, a spokesman for the operator said Thursday. James Gillies said an additional setback to the timing could result if some other problem is found, but the European Organization for Nuclear Research is taking pains to make sure it avoids another major shutdown like the electrical failure of Sept.

July 28th, 2009 Obama: Existing health system threatens MedicareWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is telling participants in an online forum on health care that the current system and its skyrocketing costs are a threat to Medicare. Obama says the Medicare trust fund will be in the red and out of money in a decade unless Washington overhauls the system.

July 24th, 2009 Huge telescope opens in Spain's Canary IslandsLA PALMA, Canary Islands — One of the world's most powerful telescopes opened its shutters for the first time Friday to begin exploring faint light from distant parts of the universe. The Gran Telescopio Canarias, a €130 million ($185 million) telescope featuring a 34-foot (10.4-meter) reflecting mirror, sits atop an extinct volcano.

July 21st, 2009 All-Star game was week's top ratings hitNEW YORK — Baseball's All-Star game was a hit with viewers last week to top the ratings. But claiming the No.

July 6th, 2009 Witness says Disney monorail crash was "head-on"ORLANDO, Fla. — A witness to the monorail accident that killed a train operator at Walt Disney World over the weekend described it as "a head-on collision" between two trains in a 911 call released Monday.

July 6th, 2009 Federal agency probes Disney World monorail deathORLANDO, Fla. — A witness to the monorail accident that killed a train operator at Walt Disney World over the weekend described it as "a head-on collision" between two trains in a 911 call released Monday.

May 19th, 2009 HYDERABAD - 7Seas Technologies Limited, a Hyderabad-based independent IP-based games development company, today announced the launch of its new casual online game on Swine Flu - a pandemic that wrecked havoc across the globe killing hundreds of people in Mexico - Swine Flue Killer.The game is available in its online gaming portal www.onlinerealgames.com. To play this game, all a gamer needs to do is vaccinate as many patients as possible in time, kill the virus, save patients and become a Swine Flu Killer.

May 13th, 2009 Bruins' Savard suffers minor leg injury in Game 6RALEIGH, N.C. — Boston Bruins center Marc Savard should be ready to play against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals series despite injuring his leg Tuesday night.

May 9th, 2009 Artest not suspended for Game 4, foul downgradedHOUSTON — The NBA downgraded a flagrant foul called against Ron Artest, determining Saturday that the play should not have been severe enough to warrant an ejection. Artest was whistled for a flagrant foul penalty two, an automatic ejection, for his hard foul on Pau Gasol late in the Lakers' 108-94 victory over Houston on Friday in Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal series.

May 5th, 2009 NJ boat sinking survivor: Tangled gear possibleCAPE MAY, N.J. — The sole survivor from a scallop boat that sank off the coast of New Jersey says he agrees with a lawyer's theory that the vessel's fishing gear might have become tangled, pulling the boat down.

April 22nd, 2009 Avery's antics backfire in Rangers' Game 3 lossNEW YORK — The only people Sean Avery truly agitated were the referees and his head coach. The NHL's premier pest didn't rattle the Washington Capitals or shake 20-year-old goalie Simeon Varlamov in the New York Rangers' 4-0 loss in Game 3 of the first-round series on Monday night.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - TERI University is honoured to have Dr. Badal Mukhopadhyay as the Professor of Economics.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Three Indian-Americans students have made it to the top 10 in what has been described as the brainy version of American Idol, introducing America's next top scientist. Narendra Tallapragada from Virginia was ranked fourth, Preya Shah from New York eighth and Nilesh Tripuraneni from California ninth in the Intel Science Talent Search with the top honours going to Eric Larson, 17, of Eugene, Oregon.

January 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - A majority of fuel-starved autorickshaws, taxis, schoolbuses and private vehicles in India's financial capital remained off the roads Friday morning, putting millions of residents to hardship. The worst-hit in the morning were millions of office-goers, school and college students who were stranded at various points around the city in the absence of transport.