 | | A protest on Sunday, the anniversary of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Mo., ended with gunfire. Whitney Curtis for The New York Times | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Violence in Ferguson, one year later. |
| A man who fired at police officers was in turn shot by an officer and is in critical condition today after mostly peaceful protests on Sunday to observe the anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown on Sunday. |
| The suburb of St. Louis remains one of the most segregated places in the country. |
| • On the campaign trail. |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton today will propose major new spending by the government to help undergraduates pay tuition at public colleges without loans. |
| And Donald J. Trump suggested that he had been singled out for attacks by the hosts of a Republican debate last week. |
| • Attacks in Istanbul. |
| Two assailants opened fire at the U.S. Consulate building in Turkey's largest city today. |
| Earlier, a bomb attack at a police station wounded 10 people, including seven police officers, and caused a fire that led part of the three-story building to collapse. |
| The attacks come as violence between Turkey's security forces and Kurdish rebels escalates, and as Turkey takes a more active role in fighting Islamic State militants. |
| • Sex abuse case in Pakistan. |
| Parliament is expected today to take up the issue of child abuse after reports that a gang of 15 men abused nearly 300 children and recorded videos to extort money from their parents. |
| • At the ballot box. |
| Results are expected today in Argentina's presidential primary election that will gauge the nation's desire for change after 12 years under the party of the current president. |
| And delays and disorder have marred Haiti's legislative elections, which had been postponed for nearly four years because of a political power struggle. |
| • Typhoon cleanup. |
| Typhoon Soudelor weakened today to a tropical storm as it moved further inland in China. At least 20 people are dead or missing in China and Taiwan. |
| MARKETS |
| • Coca-Cola is teaming up with influential scientists to promote the argument that weight-conscious Americans are overly fixated on how much they eat and drink instead of on exercise. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are slightly higher. European and Asian markets are mixed, although the Shanghai index gained 5 percent. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • A Colorado gunman received a life sentence without parole for killing 12 people and injuring 70 at a movie theater in 2012. |
| • President Obama began a 17-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, where he has gone every year since he became president but one (2012). |
| • Some of the top scientists in the U.S. wrote to President Obama to praise the Iran nuclear deal, calling it stringent. |
| • About 100 Afghans were killed in bombings, in a sign that Taliban forces are escalating violence after a brief lull at the end of July. |
| • Nagasaki, Japan, fell silent for one minute at 11:02 a.m. Sunday, the time of the atomic bomb attack 70 years ago that left 74,000 dead. |
| • The severely burned father of a Palestinian toddler who was killed in an arson attack died of his wounds, and Israel continued a crackdown on Jewish militants. |
| • The N.F.L. Hall of Fame inducted eight players, including Junior Seau, who had a brain disease and killed himself in 2012 at the age of 43. |
| • "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" was the No. 1 draw at the North American box office, with "Fantastic Four" a disappointing second. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Hannibal," "Masters of Sex" and the season finale of "True Detective." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Record-setting champion. |
| The American teenager Katie Ledecky won five gold medals, set three world records and became the first to win the 200-, 400-, 800- and 1,500-meter freestyles in a major international swimming competition, at the World Championships in Russia. |
• Popular software.
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| More than a third of Internet users in some countries, particularly in Europe, use ad-blocking software, a report out today says. |
| Ad-blocking software will lead to almost $22 billion of lost advertising revenue this year, according to the report, prepared by two companies opposed to the software. |
| • They are hot to trot. |
| The next American Pharoah could be among the thoroughbreds coming to auction today in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The two-day Fasig-Tipton auction is considered the premier sale of yearlings, mostly for the rich and famous. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Frank Gifford, a Hall of Fame football player and broadcaster on ABC's "Monday Night Football," died Sunday at the age of 84. |
| Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who became a 20th-century American heroine for sparing the U.S. from widespread birth deformities, and for inspiring laws that made drugs safer, died on Friday at the age of 101. |
| Louise Suggs, a founder of the women's professional golf tour and one of its most successful and outspoken players, died on Friday at the age of 91. |
| BACK STORY |
| Although Microsoft bought Nokia's cellphone arm in 2014, the Finnish company is still very much in business. |
| In fact, Nokia is celebrating its 150th year since it started as a wood-pulping business. Its name comes from the town where it established a mill in the 1860s. |
| Nokia's first telecommunications product, a digital switch for phone networks, didn't come until the 1970s. |
| But by 1998, Nokia was the leading mobile phone maker in the world. |
| Its latest phones were the must-haves of their day; the Nokia 8110 was the ultracool product star of the 1999 movie "The Matrix." |
| And its footprint in Finland was outsize, at one point representing 4 percent of gross domestic product, 70 percent of stock market capital and 21 percent of exports. |
| Nokia held its lead until 2011, washed away by a tsunami of smartphones from Apple, BlackBerry and Samsung. After the sale last week of its mapping service, the company is now focused on telecom network equipment. |
| One enduring legacy is the Nokia ringtone, which was the default setting on billions of mobile phones. |
| Borrowed from "Gran Vals," a 1902 Spanish guitar composition, the tune can still make people turn and look for a ringing phone today. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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