Summary
- Southern and eastern Europe is expected to get even hotter this week, with 46C (115F) forecast in Sardinia
- The hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C (120F) in Sicily in August 2021
- Italian authorities have issued red alerts for 16 cities, while a wildfire has broken out in Greece
- China provisionally recorded its highest temperature ever on Sunday - 52.2C in Xinjiang, the UK Met Office says
- In the US, a heat dome over the south-west has left tens of millions of people under extreme heat warnings
- Death Valley in California hit 53.9C (128F ) on Sunday - the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth is 56.7C (134F)
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