A weekend heatwave in Germany broke the national record for the highest recorded temperature, dpa reported. The thermometer in Kitzingen in the southern state of Bavaria read 40.3 degrees Sunday, breaking the 2003 record by 0.1 degrees, the German Weather Service said. It was the highest temperature Germany has experienced since the start of record-keeping in 1881. Efforts by Germans to keep cool proved deadly with 12 drownings reported in lakes, ponds, rivers and pools.
