21.   Police guarded empty offices Wednesday as nearly half a million government employees in a southern Indian state went on an indefinite strike to protest wage cuts.

22.   Police guarded Hindu temples and neighborhoods in this majority Muslim nation Friday to prevent reprisals for the deaths of Muslims at the hands of Hindu extremists in rival India.

23.   Police guarded the door and the windows were covered with newspaper to prevent anyone from looking inside.

24.   Police have guarded his residence since his release for fear of retaliation by right-wing extremists, the Maariv newspaper said Wednesday.

25.   Protesters, guarded by police and kept behind iron fences, sent fireworks into the air and shouted insults at women in fur.

26.   Police are guarding an area near Manila where construction workers accidentally unearthed hundreds of antique Mexican silver coins, triggering a scramble among residents, officials said Tuesday.

27.   Police guarded four of the seriously wounded Thursday at a hospital at Badulla, near Bandarawela.

28.   Police guarded the door and the windows were covered with newspaper to prevent anyone looking inside.

29.   Police now guard the site.

30.   Police said the injured person was treated at the scene by paramedics and was taken to hospital, where he was being guarded by police.