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| Former UK PM Brown to stand down as lawmaker at 2015 election -media |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to announce on Monday that he will stand down as a lawmaker at next year's national election after 32 years in parliament, British media reported. Brown, ranked Britain's most unpopular prime minister in half a century before he led the Labour party to its worst electoral defeat in a generation in 2010, returned to the spotlight this year with several high-profile speeches during the Scottish independence referendum campaign. ...
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| UK's Cameron to China: Hong Kong ban on lawmakers 'mistaken' |
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 By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron believes a Chinese decision to prevent a committee of British lawmakers visiting Hong Kong is mistaken and has only served to heighten concerns around the former British colony, his spokesman said on Monday. On Sunday, the chairman of parliament's foreign affairs committee said Chinese embassy officials had told him he and other British lawmakers would be refused entry to Hong Kong to undertake research related to an inquiry about progress towards democracy there. ...
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| Intel acquires Canadian IT security firm PasswordBox |
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 TORONTO (Reuters) - Intel Corp said on Monday it has acquired PasswordBox, a Montreal-based identity management service that gives users a convenient way to log into websites and applications from any device without having to type or remember passwords. The purchase price for the privately held Canadian start-up was not disclosed. ...
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| Ferguson protesters lawyer up after scores of arrests |
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 By Emily Flitter FERGUSON, MO. (Reuters) - The young man and woman waiting in the dark outside the St. Louis county jail were bundled up in scarves and hats to ward off a light freezing rain, but still they were shivering. Every time someone emerged from the jail they would scurry with the person to a nearby car, which had the engine running and the heat blasting. The pair were one of several teams working in shifts to help some of the more than 100 people who were arrested during last week's sometimes violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri. ...
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| Pope calls on Muslim leaders worldwide to condemn terrorism |
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 By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism, saying it would help to dispel the stereotype that equates Islam with terror. Speaking to reporters aboard the plane as he returned from Turkey, where he condemned Islamic State insurgents several times, Francis said he made the suggestion in private talks on Friday with the country's president, Tayyip Erdogan. ...
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| China tobacco monopoly pushes back on smoking curbs |
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 BEIJING (Reuters) - The chief of China's powerful tobacco monopoly on Monday pushed back against government efforts to curb smoking, a habit the World Health Organisation says accounts for as many as a million deaths a year. In an interview with the Study Times, controlled by the ruling Communist Party, Ling Chengxing, director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, said controls on tobacco should not take an "absolutist" or "expansionist" direction. "We must note that smoking has hundreds of years of history and objectively a market demand for cigarettes still exists," Ling said. ...
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