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Europe's hit wave is breaking records and disrupting business.
It's well-business expressed from the BBC World Service.
I am busy at Dubai.
We'll ask what extreme weather means for the economy and why one of Asia's biggest
tech companies is heading to Wall Street despite a recent sell-off in technology stocks.
Tens of thousands of people have been left without power in Northern
France as a blistering heat wave continues to grip much of Western Europe.
The altitudes have been blamed on a transformer fault linked to the extreme temperatures.
It comes after France recorded its hottest day on record on Tuesday and where weather
alerts remain in place across parts of France, Italy, Spain and Britain.
Well, this people in London though had mixed views about the soaring temperatures.