Siberian helicopter crash kills 18

A Russian airline says one of its helicopters has crashed shortly after takeoff in Siberia, killing all 18 people aboard. The UTair airline, which operated the Mi-8 helicopter, said preliminary information indicated the aircraft’s blades collided with another helicopter that had taken off earlier yesterday from the pad in Vankor, above the Arctic Circle about 2600km northeast of Moscow. There were 15 passengers and three crew aboard, the airline said. Russian news reports said all the passengers were believed to have been working for a subsidiary of the state oil company Rosneft.

Memoir by Jobs’ daughter

Steve Jobs told his daughter she “smelled like a toilet” on his deathbed, according to a new memoir detailing their troubled relationship. The Apple founder made the comments during a visit by his daughter to his home when he picked up on the smell of a facial mist that had soured. In an excerpt from her memoir published in magazine, Lisa Brennan-Jobs — who Jobs denied was his daughter after her birth — chronicles how her father had to be sued for maintenance payments.

Hotter than Death Valley

Europe is putting Britain’s heatwave in the shade as temperatures risk passing a record high of 48C this weekend, say meteorologists. It has prompted unusual measures, from gorillas being given banana ice cubes in a French zoo to the horse-drawn Fiakers of Vienna being taken out of service. Lisbon in Portugal could be hotter than Death Valley, forecasters said. The hot air mass from North Africa has caused two deaths in Spain. Northern Europe is also suffering — Mt Kebnekaise in Sweden is no longer the Scandinavian country’s highest peak at 2110m because of its melting glacier.