NEW DELHI, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — India test-fired a long range missile capable of reaching deep inside China and Europe on Thursday, television stations showed, thrusting the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations with intercontinental nuclear defense capabilities. ...  > full story

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — Three of 11 Secret Service employees, who are being investigated for allegations of misconduct over an incident in Colombia that involved prostitutes, are leaving, the agency said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

NEW YORK, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations that it conspired with publishers to raise prices of electronic books, a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant said in court on Wednesday. ...  > full story

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — The United States on Wednesday threw its support behind a bid to boost the International Monetary Fund's financial resources, signaling greater satisfaction among Group of 20 nations with Europe's efforts to resolve its debt crisis. ...  > full story

WASHINGTON, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — The Secret Service is "scrubbing" its files for past incidents involving agents like last week's alleged misconduct with prostitutes at a Colombia hotel, a Republican senator said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

NEW YORK, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — Oil tumbled nearly 3 percent on Friday, with U.S. crude below $100 a barrel for the first time since February, as an abrupt slow-down in U.S. hiring soured economic sentiment and technical triggers intensified selling. ...  > full story

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — A new Pentagon report on Wednesday recommended loosening U.S. export controls on "hundreds of thousands" of items on communications satellites and remote sensing equipment, while maintaining or tightening controls on exports to China, Iran and other countries. ...  > full story

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — President Barack Obama called Warren Buffett on Wednesday, the White House said, following the billionaire investor's disclosure that he had been diagnosed with stage one prostate cancer. ...  > full story

BRUSSELS, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized on Wednesday for photographs that appeared in an American newspaper of U.S. soldiers posing with the maimed bodies of dead Afghan insurgents. ...  > full story

ABUJA, Apr. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — The United States warned its citizens in Nigeria on Wednesday that Islamist militant group Boko Haram might be planning attacks on the capital Abuja - but the Nigerian government dismissed the alert saying it would create "undue panic". ...  > full story