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Malee, a three-month old Asian elephant, cools off with a spray of water in her wading pool at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City on July 18. Much of the nation is in the grip of a broiling heat wave. Sue Ogrocki/AP
A child cools off in mist at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., on July 18. A heat wave is smothering the Midwest with a heat index well over 100 degrees in most places. Cooling centers are opening, and farmers are scrambling to prevent more livestock deaths. Nati Harnik/AP
A woman soaks her feet in the water as she and a man cool off during a prolonged heat wave in Dallas, Texas, on July 18. Mike Stone/Reuters
A boater seeks relief from high temperatures in Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis on July 18. A heat wave with oppressive temperatures and stifling humidity lingered and intensified in the middle part of the country and was expected to expand eastward as the week continued. Eric Miller/Reuters
Air conditioning is not the only way to beat the heat. A watermelon-flavored Italian Slush is served at Revere Beach in Revere, Mass., in 2005. John Nordell/Staff/File
We all scream for ice cream! Children eat ice cream during the celebrations for Border Guards Day in Kiev, Ukraine, on May 28. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
There's nothing like a cascade of water to cool you off. A man stands in a waterfall in Minsk, Belarus, on July 15. A heat wave hit the city, with temperatures going higher than 86 F. Sergei Grits/AP
A swimming hole is one of summer's pleasures. Justin Dahl lets go of a rope swing to fall into the cool lake below near the Winona Municipal Airport in Goodview, Minn., on July 1. Andrew Link/The Winona Daily News/AP
Coolness is where you find it. Ron Krajewski pushes his son Ron Jr. through a water sprinkler to cool off from the simmering heat at the National Mall in Washington on June 8. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
A mini fan for a St. Louis Cardinals fan: In a heat index of 110 degrees, a man tries to stay cool at a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks in St. Louis, Mo., on July 10. Tom Gannam/AP
Keeping cool: A patron waiting in line at Pete's Fish and Chips restaurant stands near the misting machine as temperatures after sunset topped 105 degrees in Phoenix on June 23. Ross D. Franklin/AP
Water parks are a logical place to go when the temperature rises. A boy cools off in a fountain in the village of Babin Most near Kosovo's capital Pristina on July 11. Visar Kryeziu/AP
It's great when a city gives people a place to escape the heat. Locals soak in the fountains of Royal Festival Hall on a hot day in London on June 27. Olivia Harris/Reuters
This is something you wouldn't want to do in the winter. Cranberry township volunteer firefighter Chuck Dohn aims his fire hose as he practices with a fellow fireman at their annual 'Battle of the Barrel' at the Community Days celebration to hone skills and build camaraderie in Cranberry, Pa., on July 9. Keith Srakocic/AP
Sometimes a city fountain is the best way to go. Arthur Davis (r.) and his brother Carter cool off in New York's Washington Square fountain on July 5. Mary Altaffer/AP
Slip slidin' away: With temperatures hitting a record 118 degrees, Nazerei Montoya (r.) and her younger brother, Nickolas Herrera, play on a water slide fed with a garden hose in front of their apartment in Phoenix on July 3. David Wallace/The Arizona Republic/AP
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/24
In Pictures: Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/23
In Pictures: Huge hurricanes
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah will fight to keep Syria's Bashar Assad in power. He also said Hezbollah fighers are fighting in Syria against Sunni Islamic radicals.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."
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