An intense heatwave kills at least 14 people over a three-day long weekend in Japan, media reports, and high temperatures hamper the recovery in flood-hit areas where more than 200 people died last week.

With a heat wave sweeping the country for weeks, school-going children are falling sick due to the scorching summer sun.

The ongoing heat wave which is sweeping across the country shall continue for at least three or four more days, the Met office says.

With a heat wave sweeping across the country, several hundred diarrhoea patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country.

Italy's farm animals are being given showers, fans and air conditioning in their stalls to try to keep them cool during the current heatwave there.

The death toll from a heatwave in Pakistan's southern Sindh province passes 800, hospital officials say, as mortuaries reached capacity.

More than 120 people have died during a heatwave in Pakistan's southern Sindh province.

Delhi, surrounding areas wake up to a cooler morning as mercury dropped to around 30°C from weeks of unrelenting temperatures caused by a heat wave that killed over 2,200 people in India.

The massive heatwave sweeping India is starting to ease, with forecasts of rain in some affected states.

Heatwave conditions continue to sweep India where more than 1,100 people have died in the past week, officials say.

The death toll in the heatwave sweeping India has reached nearly 800 with temperatures nearing 50C (122F) in some areas.

At least 500 people are reported to have died in a heatwave sweeping India, with temperatures reaching 48C (118F) in some areas.