1.   Before arguments on keeping McVeigh held in jail, both of his court-appointed lawyers asked to be replaced because they knew blast victims.

2.   The hearing marked the first time that most of the relatives of the blast victims have been able to see McVeigh and Nichols in person.

3.   Three blast victims died in the operating room here Saturday, and five more who were in the intensive-care unit died, the nurse said.

4.   A photographer present in the area told The Associated Press he had seen the bodies of nine blast victims.

5.   At a memorial for the Kenyan bomb blast victims, women prayed with newspaper photos of the attack on the World Trade Center in front of them.

6.   He asked those gathered to hold a moment of silence for the blast victims.

7.   Nairobi surprises itself with the sheer courage and resourcefulness of its long-suffering inhabitants, who rush in to help the blast victims.

8.   Police are trying to identify an unclaimed body of the blast victim.

9.   Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin expressed condolences to the families of the blast victims and said all necessary to investigate the reasons for the tragedy will be taken.

10.   The blast victims in Nijemci, a village in eastern Slavonia, belonged to government teams clearing mines in the area.