In pictures: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale around the world

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  Customers look at Apple Inc’s iPhone 6 at the company’s Omotesando store in Tokyo. Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg

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  A customer in an Apple store checks the new iPhone 6 in Paris. Christophe Ena / AP Photo

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  Sales assistants prepare new Apple iPhone 6 phones and other Apple products at the Apple Store in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup / Getty Images

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  The first people in the queue, Sam Sheikh, left, and Jameel Ahmed, right, celebrate for the media after buying the new iPhone6, outside the Apple shop in London. Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP Photo

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  Customers wait in line outside the Apple Inc George Street store in Sydney. Lisa Maree Williams / Bloomberg

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  A young Japanese woman poses with her new iPhone 6. Franck Robichon / EPA

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  The first French customer to buy the latest iPhone holds two boxes containing the iPhone6, as he exits the Apple Store in Paris. Fred Dufour / AFP Photo

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  Employees cheer before the launch of Apple Inc’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus at the company’s Omotesando store in Tokyo. Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg

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  People check the latest iPhone, the iPhone 6, on the day of its launch in Paris. Fred Dufour / AFP Photo

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  Customers wait in line on the first day of sale for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus outside the Apple store at Grand Central Terminal in New York. Adrees Latif / Reuters

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  Customers look at their mobile phones while waiting in line outside an Apple Inc store ahead of the company’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launch in Hong Kong. Jerome Favre / Bloomberg

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  Customers Alice Clarke, left, and Katie Cincotta take a “selfie” photograph using an iPhone 6 Plus in Sydney. Lisa Maree Williams / Bloomberg

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  People try out the newly released iPhone 6 in Berlin. Hannibal / Reuters

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  Ken Miyauchi, left, vice president of Softbank, Japanese mobile phone company hugs the first customer to buy an iPhone 6. Shizuo Kambayashi / AP Photo

Apple Inc’s stores attracted long lines of shoppers for the debut of the latest iPhones, indicating healthy demand for the bigger screen smartphones.

The iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus went on sale today in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, France, Germany and the UK, before rolling out in Puerto Rico, Canada and the US.

Shoppers in New York and San Francisco had already formed lines in the past two days to be among the first to buy the gadgets.