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Apple narrowly beats estimates with boost from iPhone sales
Apple narrowly beats estimates with boost from iPhone sales

Apple reported revenues Thursday that narrowly surpassed analyst expectations, sending shares lower in after-hours trading even as the company enjoyed a boost from iPhone sales. This sent shares of Apple, the world's most valuable traded company, down two percent in extended trading after the results were posted.

Bolivia's breadbasket squeezed by pro-Morales blockades
Bolivia's breadbasket squeezed by pro-Morales blockades

At a wholesale market in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba, farmer Damaris Masias watches through tears as 10 tonnes of tomatoes that she spent over a week trying to get through roadblocks are tossed into a bin. Masias lost not only her own tomatoes when she set out for Cochabamba, but those of an entire neighborhood of what she calls "poor people."