Spanish troops force Moroccan soldiers off the disputed Mediterranean islet of Perejil after failing to reach a diplomatic compromise

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• Wednesday July 17, 2002
• Sofia Loren and Giorgio Armani at the opening of the Italian designer's new shop in Rome
• George and Laura Bush join Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski and his wife Jolanta at the White House
• The Queen meets singer Gareth Gates at a Buckingham Palace garden party
• The stars of Sex And The City come out for the 5th season premiere of the hit New York-based show
• Prince Charles visits the site of a National Trust conservation project in Northamptonshire
• Eleven feared dead in North Sea helicopter crash
• Actor Robert Wagner receives his star on the Hollywood walk of fame with a little help from his Austin Powers co-star Mike Myers
• Courteney Cox Arquette joins husband David at the LA premiere of Eight Legged Freaks
• A woman dies from injuries received after a beach party in Brighton, which DJ Fatboy Slim was headlining
• Spanish troops force Moroccan soldiers off the disputed Mediterranean islet of Perejil after failing to reach a diplomatic compromise
• 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

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