A roundup of today's other stories in brief.
One dead as RAF military copters collide
LONDON -One man was killed and three were injured when two military training helicopters collided in mid-air yesterday, the Ministry of Defence said.
The aircraft crashed over the Royal Air Force's Ternhill airbase near Market Drayton, Shropshire. - (Reuters)
Olmert denies bank wrongdoing
BEIJING -Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, responding to a television report he could face criminal investigation, has denied any wrongdoing in the sale of a bank and appointments to a business authority.
Israel's Channel 10 said yesterday that police intended to question Mr Olmert about his role in the 2005 privatisation of Bank Leumi, when he was finance minister, and in the staffing of the government-funded Small and Medium Business Authority in 2004. - (Reuters)
Beatles 'Guitar' lyrics on sale
LONDON -The original handwritten lyrics to Beatles classic While My Guitar Gently Weeps will go on sale in the United States on Monday and are expected to fetch up to £400,000 (€596,000).
The manuscript, penned by George Harrison, includes lines not included in the final version of the song, which was first recorded in 1968. - (Reuters)
Death of US actor Yvonne De Carlo
LOS ANGELES -Actor Yvonne De Carlo, known to one generation as Moses's wife in C.B. De Mille's The Ten Commandments and to another as the wife on television's hit show The Munsters, has died at age 84, a source said yesterday. She died of natural causes on Monday. - (Reuters)
Houston auctions personal goods
NEW YORK -Whitney Houston's see-through grand piano sold for $20,000 (€15,400) as bidders packed a dingy warehouse for a noisy auction of hundreds of her personal belongings.
The custom-made Schimmel instrument was bought by an anonymous Mississippi antiques dealer, clad in snakeskin boots, who turned up with the cash in a plastic bag. - (PA)