Week in pictures: 26 April - 2 May

At least 66 people were killed in a collision at dawn between two passenger trains in eastern China, state media said. More than 400 passengers were injured, many of them seriously.

Austrian man Josef Fritzl, 73, from the town of Amstetten, confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

Police released photos of the cellar in which they were kept. They show a concealed network of windowless chambers. The rooms were equipped for sleeping and cooking, and with sanitary facilities.

A 48-hour strike was begun as last minute talks failed to find a solution to the dispute between workers and management at the Grangemouth refinery, Scotland.

Burnt pages of a book were collected after a fire engulfed the Peace Baptist Church in Philadelphia, USA, sending thick black smoke into the air...

...while in Virginia, a flag stood in the rubble in the city of Suffolk, a day after a tornado struck the area.

Millions of people across Israel marked the country's annual memorial day for six million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

Morris Men saw in the dawn on One Tree Hill, Somerset, England. Morris dancing is a traditional folk dance, accompanied by music, with dancers using sticks and handkerchiefs.

The first day of May brought workers and unionists on to the streets in Ukraine and around the world to mark May Day or Labour Day.

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