One of the most memorable events was the marathon, which took place during a July heatwave.
In France and Italy, the heatwave cut wheat yields and fodder production by one-third.
The latest victim of the heatwave was a 90-year-old woman found dead in Orly, near Paris.
Thousands of elderly citizens died during the heatwave that summer, with small mention in your pages.
Mr Putin said the USSR had never had to cope with a heatwave like that of 2010.
During last year's heatwave, during which there were 800 extra deaths across Britain, levels of ozone and particles soared.
The highest heatwave level - Level 4 - is classed as "red emergency".
Russia's death rate rose by more than a quarter during August's heatwave and forest fire crisis, official data show.
Further, what we are seeing is minor, weenie, dinky compared to the great eastern heatwave of July and August 1930.
Scientists believe the current heatwave may be contributing to unusually large numbers of whales and dolphins off the UK coastline.
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After the summer heatwave, the mayor has had further ammunition to use in his campaign to discourage cars and give more space to public transport.
In fact, the mayor of New York city has taken the heatwave and its problems as a chance to demonstrate that he actually lives there.
The heatwave is expected to intensify on Wednesday, French media report.
Indeed, the heatwave may have caused the old cables to fail.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the previous prime minister, never recovered his credibility after thousands died while ministers were on holiday during a heatwave in the summer of 2003.
Similarly, a heatwave which leads to swimming in rivers and drownings, a cold front which leads to a larger than usual number of half frozen people.
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The ONS thinks that one-off factors an extra bank holiday, the tsunami in Japan, a heatwave in April may have knocked 0.5% off activity in the second quarter.
Loss of air conditioning creates big problems, this proven in the great Midwestern heatwave of 1995 (when the heat index reached a deadly 136 in southern Wisconsin).
And the weather a bizarre heatwave followed by torrential rain was awful.
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin, France's centre-right prime minister, had originally decided to sacrifice this public holiday after the summer canicule (heatwave) in 2003, in which 15, 000 people died, many of them elderly.
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Finally, the Mirror and Star both predict a protracted heatwave from next weekend while the Express says abnormally mild weather has already resulted in an exceptionally early pollen season.
The heatwave across Australia in recent weeks has been so intense that the Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new shade to its colour-coded temperature chart, so the scale now reaches above 50C.
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The mayor's suggestion in the summer heatwave of 2005 that Londoners saved water by flushing the toilet less frequently was considered an act of sacrifice too far for most people -- global warming or not.
Other outlandish features of this Domino's, NASCAR, and Coke-branded monstrosity include two swiveling LCD screens, DVD player, Xbox (OG, not 360), MP3 player, XM radio with one year of service, Nextel cellphone, mini-fridge, and two embedded Domino's HeatWave bags.
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Imagine us as Australians, though, and the hyperborean blast must mean a heatwave scorching over from Java's scented isle, just as (though neither actually happens) Father Christmas should arrive half-clad on waterskis, and Easter should recall, to anthropologists, not the Adonis festival and the rebirth of spring but some autumn feast that has lost its way, or why not?
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