Europe Bakes in Hot Weather

Women enjoy sun in Kolomenskoye park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 15, 2010. A heat wave across much of Europe is causing crops to wither, forest fires to ignite and roads to melt, while refrigerators and fans are buckling in the searing sun.

Two people pass the so-called "Badeschiff" (bathing ship) in a canoe in the river Spree on July 11, 2010, in Berlin, as Germany experiences a heatwave.

Two children play on bales of straw on a field in Petersdorf, eastern Germany, where the sun sets behind a red-colored sky on July 15, 2010.

Hungarian boys jump into the water from the bank of the Lake Velence, 45 km far Budapest, on July 14, 2010.

A man sits on the banks of the Landwehr Canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on July 12, 2010.

Girls jump into the river Spree in Beeskow, eastern Germany, on July 14, 2010.

People cool off in a fountain in front of the pyramid of the Louvre museum on July 11, 2010, in Paris as the city sweltered under an heatwave.

A dry field can be seen on July 12, 2010, near Petersdorf, eastern Germany.

A man cools off in a fountain in Berlin on July 11, 2010.

Nine-year-old Harry refreshes himself in a fountain on July 10, 2010, in Berlin.

Tourists from Bulgaria and Macedonia play their instruments on the banks of the Landwehr Canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on July 12, 2010.

A man surfs on a board in the so-called Eisbach canal in Munich's English Garden the southern Germany, on July 11, 2010.

Two women cool off with a sprinkler system on the lawn of Mariannenplatz in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on July 12, 2010.

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