LONDON/MILAN — For more than a century, cafes in the Italian city of Padua have welcomed customers for an early evening drink, or aperitivo, encouraging them to sit outside and socialize before dinner.
FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a hand fan as people sit near the Colosseum in Rome on Aug. 3 during a heatwave across Italy.
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A woman uses a portable electric fan as she sits on a bench at St. James's Park station of the London underground during a heatwave on Aug. 13 in England.
A woman uses a hand fan and an umbrella during a heatwave on Aug. 13 in London.
A large part of Europe is in the grip of its fifth heatwave of the summer, with temperatures in parts of France soaring to 40 degrees Celsius. And the extreme weather is also taking a toll on the world’s oceans: last month, average global sea temperatures reached a record high of 21 degrees Celsius. Antonia Kerrigan has the details.
