Apple is used to being the overachieving popular kid in Silicon Valley, but the iPhone maker is about to face its most difficult quarter since the first iPhone was announced, after the company forecast a decline in sales.

When Donald Trump announced last summer that he was running for president, he didn't expect to be leading the polls a day ahead of the Iowa caucus, the real estate mogul said this morning on ABC's "This Week."

Despite appearing increasingly isolated, Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx of refugees, or to close Germany's borders. 

Support for her conservative bloc has slipped as concerns mount about how Germany will integrate the 1.1 million migrants who arrived last year, while crime and security are also in the spotlight after a wave of assaults on women in Cologne at New Year by men of north African and Arab appearance.

The influx has played into the hands of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose support is now in the double digits, and whose leader was quoted on Saturday saying that migrants entering illegally should, if necessary, be shot.

Merkel said it was important to stress that most refugees had only been allowed to stay for a limited period.

"We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained," she told a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.Merkel said 70 percent of the refugees who fled to Germany from former Yugoslavia in the 1990s had returned.

Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's Bavarian sister party, has threatened to take the government to court if the flow of asylum seekers is not cut.

Merkel urged other European countries to offer more help "because the numbers need to be reduced even further and must not start to rise again, especially in spring".

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Fabrice Leggeri, the head of the European Union's border agency Frontex, said a U.N. estimate that up to a million migrants could try to come to Europe via the eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkans next year was realistic.

"It would be a big achievement if we could keep the number ... stable," he told the magazine Der Spiegel.

Merkel said all EU states should have an interest in protecting the bloc's external borders, and all would suffer if the internal passport-free Schengen zone collapsed and national borders were closed.

AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper that Germany needed to reduce the influx through agreements with neighboring Austria and a reinforcement of the EU's external borders.

But she also said it should not be shy about turning people back and creating "border protection installations" - and that border guards should, if necessary, shoot at migrants trying to enter illegally.

No police officer wanted to shoot at a migrant, Petry said, adding "I don't want that either but, ultimately, deterrence includes the use of armed force".

Such comments evoke memories of Germany's Cold War division, when guards in the communist East, led by Erich Honecker, were under orders to shoot people attempting to cross the heavily fortified border into the West.

"The last German politician who let refugees be shot at was Erich Honecker," said Thomas Oppermann, a senior member of the Social Democrats.

In a decision that could have momentous implications for the private sector’s role in expanding Internet access in the developing world, India’s telecoms regulator is expected to rule this week on whether to cut off Facebook’s Free Basics — a package of free online services, including Facebook, that the social media company wants to offer India’s 1.2 billion people.

The decision from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will close the book on months of public debate between digital rights activists and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is touting Free Basics as a partial solution to India’s meager Internet penetration — only 15 percent of the population has access. Open Internet advocates, however, argue that Free Basics undermines the principle of net neutrality by letting a corporation dictate which Internet services are available to the poorest Indians, who cannot afford regular Internet access.

After debuting in India in February, Free Basics was suspended by TRAI in December amid a public outcry spearheaded by an activist campaign, Save the Internet. The group's members accuse Zuckerberg of corporate exploitation masked as philanthropy and even of economic racism, alleging that if limited Internet is not good enough for Westerners, it shouldn’t pass the bar for Indians. On Monday, Save the Internet sent a letter signed by hundreds of startup founders to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warning him of the danger posed by Free Basics and other so-called zero rating services, in which tech companies compensate Internet service providers (ISPs) for any traffic to their servers.

The stakes of TRAI’s decision will be high for Internet.org, Facebook’s affordable Internet initiative (rebranded as Free Basics last year), which has brought 15 million people online in more than 30 developing countries but has its sights set on reaching potentially billions more. It would also be a blow to Facebook, which sees India as a largely untapped market for its services – but only if more Indians can get online. Although the company has sought to cast the project as partially altruistic, they have not denied it will also be good for profits. As one Facebook policy official told Buzzfeed this month, “I don’t think we’ve shied away from the fact that this is going to be good for Facebook, but I also don’t think that we should be shying away from the fact that it’s going to be good for the world as well, to bring more people online.”

Though there is little question that India is desperate to fill its Internet infrastructure gaps, critics say Free Basics is not the solution. Save the Internet activists, in an op-ed, called zero rating services “a pernicious and slow-acting poison that seems harmless at first glance, as all things ‘free’ often do, but will cause lasting damage to innovation, competition and freedom.” They argue the service will be a “walled garden” for India's Internet-illiterate poor, confusing them into thinking they are accessing the Internet when, in reality, they can only use a minuscule selection of Facebook-approved sites or applications.

But the deeper fears are that compromising net neutrality in India will stymie innovation in the tech sector. Indian tech entrepreneurs point to Facebook’s staunch defense of net neutrality in the United States, where the company opposes ISP efforts to offer fast lanes — speedier service — to companies that can afford it. Yet in India, critics say Free Basics would impose differential pricing that will have much the same effect, edging out services (including competitors of Facebook and the 80 or so Free Basics partners) by making their sites and applications relatively unaffordable. Small startups would be particularly hard hit, argued Mahesh Murthy, an Indian venture capitalist and a member of STI, in an op-ed for Quartz. The irony, he wrote, is that if Zuckerberg had been brought up on Internet.org, “he couldn’t have ever built a Facebook."

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Hillary Clinton’s email headaches grew Friday as the State Department confirmed several emails under review contain information too “top secret” to release in any form – while at the same time delaying the release of thousands of other pages.

The department released roughly 1,700 pages of emails Friday evening. But the latest developments fueled Republican allegations – just three days before the Iowa caucuses – that Clinton was “irresponsible” in her email use, and that the department she used to lead is still trying to protect her by dragging out the process until after the start of primary contests.

Fox News first reported earlier Friday that some emails were “too damaging” to national security to release.

The State Department formally announced Friday afternoon that seven email chains, found in 22 documents, will be withheld “in full” because they, in fact, contain “Top Secret” information. In addition, a spokesman said another 18 emails between President Obama and Clinton will be withheld for now – but they are “not classified” and will be released eventually.

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon pushed back, though, criticizing the intelligence community for flagging those emails.

"We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails,” he said in a statement. "This appears to be over-classification run amok. We will pursue all appropriate avenues to see that her emails are released in a manner consistent with her call last year."

The more than 1,000 pages that were released, though, are a fraction of the total remaining number.

Among the 1,670 pages released Friday evening, 242 emails were upgraded to classified; 11 of which were considered 'secret'.

One email from January 2013 included intelligence from three other government agencies, the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. The NRO and NGA are both satellite and mapping agencies, with which the State Department does not have jurisdiction over classification of information.

The agency that generates the intelligence, owns the information, and therefore has final say on classification.

The latest batch of released emails also contained a few examples of some State Department employees not understanding the classification system and its protocols.

On April 25, 2012 Clifford Hart, then U.S. special envoy for six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, sent an email that reads, "sensitive but unclassified" but is then heavily redacted and classified.

In a court filing Thursday night, the State Department said it would not make the Jan. 29 release deadline -- and about 7,000 pages still needed to be sent out for “interagency consultation.” The agency acknowledged these pages had been “missed” and not sent out for review earlier.

He said: “These emails will be denied in full, meaning they will not be produced online on our FOIA website. In response to a FOIA request, it is not unusual to deny or withhold a document in full. We are not going to speak to the content of these documents.”

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge, Matthew Dean, Lucas Tomlinson and Kelly Chernenkoff contributed to this report.