A German parliamentary committee has passed an amendment to an anti-money laundering law that may force Apple to open up access to the iPhone's NFC chip.
China Telecom is already advertising that it will sell the iPhone 6 unlocked with support for LTE, indicating Apple may release one version for the Chinese market.
Police in Cangnan county, China have busted a large iPhone data theft operation in which Apple employees used the company's internal system to collect the personal data of users for sale on the black market.
A plane destined for Prague, Czech Republic from Tel-Aviv, Israel was evacuated during boarding after an iPhone spontaneously caught fire in a passenger's handbag.
Hudson Square Research analyst Todd Rethemeier says the next iPhone will be an iPhone 5 rather than 4S and will support 4G wireless for AT&T only, not Verizon.
After tracking his son's stolen iPhone through Find My iPhone, Derek Grant ended up stabbing and killing the thief who robbed his son at knifepoint, in self defense.