The Countess of Wessex meets Nelson Mandela on an official tour of South Africa

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• Tuesday July 9, 2002
• The Countess of Wessex meets Nelson Mandela on an official tour of South Africa
• Children play in the flooded streets of the Philippines where a typhoon has left 27 dead and four missing
• Liz Hurley joins Donatella and Puffy at the Versace Haute Couture collection after-party in Paris
• EastEnder Kim Medcalf released from hospital following car crash
• Chinese fisherman huddle together and wait to be rescued by air after their boat catches fire at sea
• Tom Hanks 46 today
• Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his respects to the victims of last tuesday's aircrash over Germany
• Milla Jovovich at the London premiere of her latest movie Resident Evil
• Monday July 8, 2002
• Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan visit Prague as part of an official visit to the Czech Republic
• Real Madrid star Steve McManaman marries fianc�e Victoria in Majorca
• Delegates light candles during the opening ceremony of the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona
• US President George W Bush 56 today
• San Fermin bull-running festival gets underway in Pamplona, Spain
• Men in Black II takes the number one spot at the US box office
• Australian tennis wonder Lleyton Hewitt claims his first Wimbledon title
• Serena Williams wins Wimbledon and the two sisters also pick up the women's doubles title
• Friday July 5, 2002
• Surviving members of legendary band The Doors announce plans to re-form
• Robert Carlyle and wife Anastasia celebrate the birth of a baby girl
• Relatives of the victims of the air crash over Germany pay their respects at the scene of the disaster
• Spider-Man creator Stan Lee's comics, go on sale
• Attacker who stabbed George Harrison in 1999 apologises after being set free
• Three people are killed and several injured as a gunman opens fire at Los Angeles airport
• American Pie star Shannon Elizabeth has married fiance Joseph Reitman in Mexico
• Injured Eastenders star Kim Medcalf airlifted back to UK following car crash in France
• US cyclist Lance Armstrong looks for his fourth successive title as the Tour de France gets underway in Luxembourg
• Eric Clapton and his young wife Melia McEnery are expecting their second child
• Latin singer Marc Anthony and wife, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres have separated
• Thursday July 4, 2002
• George Bush celebrates the Fourth of July in West Virginia
• Lady Gabriella Windsor and brother Freddie look on from the royal box at Wimbledon as Tim Henman goes through to the semi-finals
• Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey 40 today
• Victoria Beckham faces court case over alleged claims a shop sold fake autographs of husband David
• Julia Roberts has married boyfriend Danny Moder at her ranch in New Mexico
• Football manager Gerard Houllier, who needed life-saving heart surgery last year, is presented with an honorary degree from Liverpool University
• Millionaire balloonist Steve Fossett touches down safely in Australia after completing first solo circumnavigation of the world
• Wednesday July 3, 2002
• Enrique Iglesias opens the Harrods July sale

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