Tsunami hits Solomon Islands after quake
An aerial picture shows destruction in Gizo, Solomon Islands after the islands town devastated by a tsunami in this image taken from video image Tuesday 3rd April 2007. Thousands of people in the town of Gizo in the South Pacific country's far west spent Monday night sleeping under tarpaulins or the stars on a hill behind the town following a massive undersea earthquake that sent tsunami waves crashing through the town.

Iranians release British sailors
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf are free to leave (4th April 2007). He repeated Iran's view that the British sailors and marines "invaded" Iranian waters, but said they were being released as a "gift" to Britain.

Bodies of British soldiers killed in Basra repatriated
The coffin of Britain's Private Eleanor Dlugosz is carried by friends and colleagues at a ceremony at Basra Air Station in Iraq, 12th April 2007. The bodies of four British soldiers killed last week in southern Iraq have flown home, receiving military honours in a ceremony at an RAF Lyneham England. Colleagues acted as pallbearers as the their coffins - shrouded in the red white and blue of the Union Flag -- were removed from a hulking grey Royal Air Force transport plane.

World Cup winner Alan Ball dies
England legend Alan Ball Ball was trying to tackle a bonfire that had got out of control when he collapsed and died (25th April 2007). Ball won 72 caps for his country during a 10-year international career and lifted the Jules Rimet trophy in 1966.

Sir Geoff Hurst, who scored a hat-trick at Wembley as England beat West Germany 4-2, led the tributes to his former team-mate. He said: "Alan was the youngest member of the team and man of the match in the 1966 World Cup final". A box-to-box midfielder, Ball was a key member of manager Sir Alf Ramsey's 'Wingless Wonders' and was awarded an MBE in 2000 for his services to football. The industrious midfielder started his career at Blackpool and went on to play for Everton, Arsenal and Southampton before a spell in the United States. He died aged 61 years.