31.   Authorities placed Ginandjar Kartasasmita, a former mines and economics minister, under guard in a Jakarta hospital where he was being treated for an unspecified illness.

32.   Authorities placed Rehman under house arrest hours before the air strikes started, seeking to quell opposition to the U.S. attacks.

33.   Azerbaijani authorities have placed extra guards around the U.S. Embassy, while Azerbaijanis placed flowers at the mission to commemorate the victims of the attacks.

34.   Authorities have placed barricades at all main roads leading out of Brasilia.

35.   French authorities have placed Virenque and his former teammates Laurent Roux and Philippe Gaumont under formal investigation, a step away from being formally charged.

36.   French judicial authorities placed the manager, the commercial director for eastern Paris, under investigation at the end of last January, the bank said.

37.   In Greece, authorities placed some Kurds under surveillance and increased security around airports and embassies, reports said.

38.   More legal action in the drug probe came Friday when authorities placed Massi under formal investigation, along with Dr. Nicolas Terrados Cepada of the Spanish team ONCE.

39.   Prison authorities have placed the mattresses of the weakest inmates on the floor for fear they will fall out of bed.

40.   Reid was tracked to Manila, and Hong Kong authorities placed enormous pressure on Filipino officials to arrest him.