CURITIBA, Brazil – Brazil announced plans to expand protection of the Amazon rain forest, and its president on Monday called on wealthy nations to do more to protect the environment. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blamed industrialized nations for the “unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.” “It is unacceptable …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Dialing into the fast-growing market for mobile games, a San Francisco-based startup is poised to unveil a new service on Monday that it hopes will make television viewers as hooked to their cell phones as they are to remote controls. AirPlay Network Inc. said it will …

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – A sheriff’s deputy who was videotaped shooting an unarmed Iraq War veteran after a car chase will be charged with attempted voluntary manslaughter, authorities said Tuesday. The decision to charge Deputy Ivory J. Webb, 45, was announced by San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos. …

NEW YORK – Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA have temporarily stopped selling the Razr, Motorola Inc.’s (MOT) flagship cell phone, due to a technical glitch that causes the phone to drop calls or shut down, the companies said on Friday. Motorola said only a limited number of phones were affected …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Victor Willis, the original policeman in the 1970s disco band the Village People, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to drug possession and giving false identification to a police officer. His arrest Sunday ended a five-month search for the former hitmaker. Willis, 54, was pulled over by a …

BEIJING – China and Chad have resumed diplomatic relations after nearly a decade without formal ties, state media said, just hours after rival Taiwan pre-emptively cut ties with the central African nation. Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and his Chadian counterpart Ahmad Allam-mi signed a joint communique in Beijing late …

Bin Laden had the hots for Whitney Houston. That’s what we’re learning from Kola Boof, the Sudanese poet and novelist whose new book “Diary of a Lost Girl” draws on her experiences as one of bid Laden’s girlfriends. Actually she says she was bin Laden’s sex slave for a while. …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” August 3, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” JOHN KASICH, GUEST HOST: In the “Unresolved Problem” segment tonight, a heated showdown on …

WASHINGTON – Airlines will soon be required to give the government passenger lists for all U.S.-bound international flights before takeoff, the nation’s homeland security chief said Wednesday. The new regulations, which could be in place by early next year, would make permanent a counterterror measure taken after last week’s foiled …

TORONTO – It is time for the African-American community “to face the fact that AIDS has become a black disease” and find ways to defeat it, said the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the international AIDS summit Monday. Julian Bond, the Rev. Jesse …