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Russell Crowe stars in Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, a revenge drama set in second-century Rome
Kingston Bridge is again widened to include two bicycle lanes, a bus lane and wider pavements
Rap artist Eminem's album The Marshall Mathers LP enters the US charts at no. 1
In Zimbabwe's elections, marred by intimidation and violence, Mugabe's party wins 62 and Tsvangirai's 57 seats in the assembly
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
A White House ceremony celebrates a full draft of the human genome completed by two rival projects
Israel completes the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon
The republic of Ireland is the fastest growing economy in the EU, with a GDP growth of more than 10%
A Concorde supersonic airliner crashes after take-off from Paris, killing all 109 on board
Billy Elliott, directed by Stephen Daldry, tells of a child's journey from a mining community into a new life in ballet
In the election for president of Yugoslavia, the incumbent Slobodan Milosevic is defeated by Vojislav Kostunica
Mao Zedong inspires German artist Anselm Kiefer's Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
Ang Lee directs Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a martial arts film notable for its magical special effects
A visit by Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem sparks off a new intifada
Suicide bombers kill 17 crew members of the destroyer USS Cole in Aden harbour
Hafiz al-Assad dies and is succeeded by his son Bashar as president of Syria
Angry crowds drive Slobodan Milosevic from power after he denies defeat in the Serbian election
Alerto Fujimori resigns after a corruption scandal during his third term as president of Peru
Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman lights the cauldron to launch the Sydney Olympic Games
Vicente Fox wins the presidential election in Mexico (the first time that an opposition politician has done so since 1911)
The US Supreme Court gives victory to Republican George W. Bush rather than Democrat Al Gore after electoral irregularities in Florida
The Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize euthanasia, allowing doctors to end the life of a patient suffering 'unbearably' from a terminal condition
The first mobile phone to include a camera is put on the market in Japan by J-Phone
At the turn of the century, it is calculated that 36 million people worldwide are infected with the HIV virus
Kosovo, with its majority Albanian population, formally declares independence from Serbia
