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Lines wrap around an Apple store in New York early morning as the Apple's flagship iPhone X hit stores around the world. The company predicted bumper sales despite the handset's eye-watering price tag and celebrated a surge in profits. IMAGES
The EU approves Apple's offer to allow rivals to access the iPhone's ability to tap-to-pay within the bloc, ending a lengthy probe and sparing it a heavy fine. SOUNDBITE
The US Department of Justice sues Apple for illegally maintaining a monopoly for its iPhone by stifling competition and imposing exorbitant costs on consumers. "Apple has maintained monopoly power in the smartphone market not simply by staying ahead of the competition on the merits, but by violating federal antitrust law," US Attorney General Merrick Garland tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Apple launches the iPhone 15, equipped with a universal USB-C charger instead of the company's usual Lightning port, after the EU ordered manufacturers to adopt a common connection. IMAGES
People in Mumbai wait outside Apple's first retail store in India ahead of its opening. The California-based firm is betting big on the nation of 1.4 billion people -- home to the second-highest number of smartphone users in the world, after China -- with a second store to open in the capital Delhi on Thursday. IMAGES
Images of police and ambulances outside of the Apple store in central Amsterdam after an armed assailant held people hostage in the building. The seige ended hours after it began, with the armed assailant under arrest, Dutch police said. IMAGES