With the US economy in crisis, the euro becomes worth more than the dollar

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• Tuesday July 16, 2002
• Oasis headline a surprisingly sunny T In The Park music festival in Kinross, Scotland
• Tiger Woods denied access to Muirfield for practice ahead of this week's British Open by a security guard who did not recognise him
• Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar warns Morocco that Spain will not allow it to keep troops on the disputed Mediterranean island of Perejil
• The Men In Black II bandwagon hits London
• Indonesian custom authorities foil a smuggling of more than 1,500 turtles to China
• President Luis Gonzalez Macchi declares a state of emergency amid violent anti-government protests in Paraguay
• With the US economy in crisis, the euro becomes worth more than the dollar
• Former Prime Minister John Major attends the memorial service of cricketer Ben Hollioake who died in a car crash earlier this year
• Monday July 15, 2002
• Baywatch babe Traci Bingham, complete with lettuce leaf bikini helps launch new PETA campaign
• Bryan Brown, Toni Collette and Sam Neill attend the Sydney premiere of Dirty Deeds
• A quarter of a million people cram Brighton's beach to watch Fatboy Slim at the Big Beach Boutique event
• PJ Ellis the latest housemate to be evicted from Big Brother
• Tony Blair receives French Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin at 10 Downing Street
• The amazing change of look of Jonathan Lipnicki as he arrives for the LA premiere of Stuart Little 2
• A gunman is held down by police after trying to shoot French president Jacques Chirac during the Bastille Day parade in Paris
• Colin McRae wins the Safari Rally in Kenya and sets new record as rally driver with most individual victories to his name
• Friday July 12, 2002
• Zara Phillips and jockey boyfriend Richard Johnson enjoy a day out at the polo in Gloucestershire
• Madhuri Dixit and Shahrukh Khani attend the Bombay premiere of Devdas, Bollywood's most expensive film ever made
• A cheesy photo of Jaques Chirac as the French president gets his picture on a brand of Camembert
• Former US President Bill Clinton talks at the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona
• John Travolta dances down the gangway as he arrives in Sydney as part of his worldwide Spirit of Friendship Tour
• George Michael says he can no longer return to his home in the US following the bad press he has received for his Shoot the Dog single
• A huge mains water leak in London's Vauxhall district causes travel chaos throughout the city
• Miss Universe Oxana Fedorova travels to Indonesia as a goodwill ambassador in the fight against AIDS
• Preparations for the wedding of King Mohammed VI get underway in Morocco
• Thursday July 11, 2002
• Jean-Paul Gaultier presents his spectacular Haute Couture collection in Paris
• Superheroes Superman and Batman to star in new movie together
• Chelsea star Emmanuel Petit has St Tropez home burgled of �50,000 worth of jewellery
• Pierce Brosnan and son Sean enjoy a night out at the fifth birthday celebration of top London eaterie Nobu
• Chang Sang becomes first woman Prime Minister of South Korea following government reshuffle
• Tom Hanks at the Los Angeles premiere of his new film Road to Perdition
• Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents fetches a record �49.5m at auction in London
• Typhoon Chata'an causes tens of thousands to flee their homes in northern Japan
• The Earl and Countess of Wessex start the 50th Safari rally in Kenya
• Wednesday July 10, 2002
• Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey attend the funeral of Who bassist and co-band member John Entwistle

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