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NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A limited, but exultant handful of business executives have declared their companies resistant to the U.S. recession that has many firms reeling.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Around 2 million people in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City received potable water in districts with historically poor sources of drinking supplies, officials said.

BANGKOK, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej canceled an annual speech he usually gives on the eve of his birthday because he was ill, his son said Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The heads of America's Big Three automakers -- General Motors, Ford and Chrysler -- descended on Washington Thursday in a convoy of hybrid and flex-fuel vehicles seeking $34 billion in loans to save the floundering U.S. auto industry. They look certain to get the bailout, but U.S. public opinion, even in the Midwest heartland where the industry is based, remains surprisingly lukewarm, even hostile.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" is No. 1 on the U.S. record chart this week, Billboard.com reported Thursday.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Three prominent political parties in the Dutch Parliament say government officials should telephone citizens before making key decisions.

RHODES, Greece, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Firefighters struggled in their attempts Thursday to contain a blaze that started a day earlier in the Kamiros region of Greece, authorities said.

NEW DELHI, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Some international airports in India are on red-alert after authorities received repeated threatening e-mails, officials said.

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they are trying to develop vaccines aimed at ticks and mosquitoes to prevent such diseases as West Nile virus and malaria.

PARIS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Relatives of Chechen nationals abducted or killed will receive $403,000 in compensation from Russia, the European Court of Human Rights decided.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Seventeen expensive coffee makers purchased for the European Commission headquarters create contaminated coffee, an official says.

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Chipping away at shopping expenses with coupons is becoming more mainstream and more creative with technology pushing new innovations, observers say.

BEIJING, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The United States must get its economic house in order, boost savings rates and protect Chinese investments, Chinese officials said Thursday.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Minuscule nanoparticles added to consumer products increasingly may be swarming through the body and threatening organs like the liver, U.S. scientists fear.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have a new theory to explain how some marine animals find their way back to their birthplace to spawn after migrating thousands of miles.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY , Russia, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Maritime territory are expected to be hit by two cyclones advancing on the country, forecasters said Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is to consider Friday whether to hear a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, court officials said.

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BERLIN, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The European Union has handed automakers more time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a decision that infuriates climate-protection activists.

MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Managers of upscale restaurants in Russia say they have begun adapting their menus to healthier and creative dishes in response to the economic crisis.