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Tuesday, 10 August, 2004, 00:38 GMT 01:38 UK
Poland yields to US in Iraq zone
Polish troops in Iraq hand over authority in two provinces to US marines because of worsening security in Najaf.
Coalition troops in Iraq
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Oklahoma plotter given life term
Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in jail for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in which 168 people died.
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Fay Wray, who was kidnapped by the giant ape in the 1933 film King Kong, dies in New York aged 96.
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