Paris registers all-time high temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius

A man takes a rest under the tree in Lille, northern France, July 25, 2019. Thursday is the hottest day of the intense heatwave episode in France's northern regions. Earlier, Meteo France forecasted that in the hottest part of the day, the temperatures under shelter will be between 40 and 42 degrees Celsius, very occasionally 43 degrees in certain districts of its capital. (Photo by Kristina Afanasyeva Courdji/Xinhua)