Panama wasn't exactly a leading summer vacation spot for Northern Hemisphere folk.

One of the country's leading summer schools is to honour victims of clerical child abuse.

He looked up the record and found that all the leading summer hotels and strategic points were in the hands of Germans.

Meteorologists say a weakening of the high-level jet stream is increasingly causing weather systems to stall and leading summer temperatures to soar.

Dubrovnik is in southern Croatia and fronts the Adriatic Sea, while Nice remains one of the leading summer hotspots in the south of France.