People cool off in the Trocadéro Fountain near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Wednesday. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters) Western Europe was in the grip of a heat wave on Wednesday that claimed dozens of lives, disrupted power supplies, shut schools and cultural landmarks, as forecasters warned the extreme temperatures could persist until the end of the week. Smashing previous records, Britain logged its highest temperature for June, reaching 36.1 C in southern England as a heat dome hovered over much of western Europe. France recorded its hottest day since records began nearly 80 years ago, when temperatures peakedRead more