Britain's Met Office issued its first ever "red" warning for exceptional heat, saying record temperatures expected early next week will put even healthy people at risk of serious illness and death.
In the U.S. as in Canada, inflation has been most noticeable at the gas pump. But the jump in the cost of staples such as milk, eggs and flour is also hitting consumers and small businesses hard. In one neighbourhood in Washington, residents are struggling to adjust to the sticker shock of their weekly grocery bills.
The head of the company now running the former McDonald's chain of restaurants in Russia told a business television channel that producers of french fries are refusing to supply to the country and warned that attempts to increase domestic processing are fraught with difficulties.
Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe.
Abortion restrictions in a number of U.S. states and the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medical care.
