Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when temperatures on Earth reach record highs

BENI MELLAL, Morocco (AP) - In the relentless heat of Morocco's Middle Atlas, people slept on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour also needed shelter, but she waited outside a hospital for her diabetic cousin, who lay in a room without air conditioning.

On Wednesday, 21 people died in the heat at Beni Mellal's main hospital, where temperatures reached 48.3 degrees (118.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in an area of ​​575,000 people, most of whom had no air conditioning.

"We have no money and we have no choice," said Ouhbour, a 31-year-old unemployed woman from Kasba Tadla, an even hotter city that some experts say ...