1.   The feared OMON riot police will be held in reserve, a police spokesman said.

2.   U.S. officials said they expected one coup leader, the feared Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, to leave Haiti for the Dominican Republic before dawn Friday.

3.   CARE said it had received apologies from top Taliban officials, including the director of the feared religious police.

4.   Teachers dart uneasy glances out windows of the bullet-pocked school, scanning the road for feared police.

5.   Teachers dart uneasy glances out windows of the bullet-pocked school, scanning the road for the feared police.

6.   The feared religious police, who patrol Kabul in pickup trucks enforcing Taliban edicts, beat the shopkeeper Saturday after they caught him selling bread to the woman.

7.   The racers were angry that members of the Dutch TVM team had been taken away by police to be tested Tuesday night and apparently feared further police searches.

8.   Hundreds of French sympathisers have meanwhile formed a human shield around the Africans to protect them from feared police intervention.

9.   Hundreds of French sympathisers and rights activists meanwhile formed a human shield around the Africans to protect them from feared police intervention, increasing pressure on the government.

10.   Hundreds of French sympathisers have formed a human shield around the Africans to protect them from feared police intervention.