The week in pictures: Apr 21 - 27

BAFTA awards

Stars of the small screen were out in force for the 2002 Bafta TV awards

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Blow from the right

Jean-Marie Le Pen celebrated unexpected success in the first round of the French presidential election

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Orange County train smash

The US suffered its second serious train crash within a week as two trains collided head on in California

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Pope condemns US cardinals

The Roman Catholic Church in the United States was condemned by the Pope following a series of child sex abuse scandals

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Tour the final frontier

The first African citizen in space blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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Damilola boys cleared

Two brothers have been cleared of the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor

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Pakistan bomb blast

Shia muslims mourn after a bomb attack during a religious ceremony at a mosque in central Pakistan

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School massacre

Eighteen people died when an expelled former pupil went on a shooting spree at his school in the eastern German city of Erfurt

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