Hello Kitty conducts the Tokyo City Orchestra

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• Tuesday July 23, 2002
• The Queen opens London's new City Hall on the South Bank
• Rumpole of the Bailey star Leo McKern dies aged 82
• Prince Charles keeps the beat on a visit to a music centre in North Wales
• Hello Kitty conducts the Tokyo City Orchestra
• Protesters gather in New Delhi to demand that Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee ban the serving of non-vegetarian food in the city
• Britain's most expensive footballer Rio Ferdinand is presented at Old Trafford by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson
• Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi shows off his violin playing skills in Tokyo
• Ron Thomas (centre) wins the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition held in Florida's Key West
• The Men In Black II bandwagon hits Madrid, Spain
• EastEnders actor Todd Carty to reprise his role as Tucker Jenkins in children's TV drama Grange Hill 20 years after first playing the character
• Woody Harrelson 41 today
• Monday July 22, 2002
• Prince Philippe of Belgium and his wife Princess Mathilde watch the parades during their country's national day
• UK multi-millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten found guilty of the manslaughter of a former business associate
• A 3km stretch of the bank of the river Seine in Paris is turned into a beach
• Joan Collins and husband Percy Gibson enjoy the St Tropez sun
• Tim Culley is the latest housemate to be evicted from Big Brother
• John Major and Emma Noble at a charity cricket match in Cambridgeshire
• England World Cup star Rio Ferdinand breaks the British transfer record as he moves to Manchester United for �30m
• Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy marries his long-time girlfriend Sarah Gurling at Wesminster
• South African Ernie Els takes the 131st Open Championship at Muirfield, Scotland
• Willem Dafoe 47 today
• Michael Schumacher wins his fifth Formula One world title at the French Grand Prix
• Friday July 19, 2002
• Angelina Jolie arrives in London to start filming the sequel to Tomb Raider
• The Queen gets to grips with new technology on a visit to Norwich
• Jerry Hall enjoys a spot of shopping on holiday in St Tropez
• Prince Charles chats with a resident of a housing estate in Surrey which has been converted from an army barracks
• A fuel tanker crashes into a bus in Uganda killing over 70 people
• Cult TV series Thunderbirds to be made into live-action film
• Pierce Brosnan becomes first Bond star to allow his image to be used in a video game
• AOL board member Ted Turner outside the company headquarters on the same day that one of the media giant's top executives quits amid reports of 'improper accounting'
• Tony and Cherie Blair meet with members of the New York Fire Department at 10 Downing Street
• Thursday July 18, 2002
• Demi Moore with new man Red Hot Chilli Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis at the Paramount Pictures' 90th anniversary party
• Dame Judi Dench is awarded an honorary degree from the University of Leeds
• Vinnie Jones has his head sculpted for charity by artist Frances Segelman
• Joan Collins to return to TV with a part on long-running daytime soap Guiding Light

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