Europe's deadly heatwave pushed east with hundreds of millions still sweltering across the continent despite fleeting relief from overnight storms, notably in France and Belgium.
In a modest makeshift workshop tucked inside the crowded Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the soft sound of an oud echoes through the ruins of war.
Camels with "a bit of fire in them" raced in a remote Australian outback town this weekend at an annual event celebrating the desert beasts first imported in the mid-19th century.