Third seed Jarkko Nieminen of Finland will take on Frenchman Michael Llodra in the final of the Adelaide International after both came through their semi-finals in straight sets on Saturday.
'It takes its toll on bigger guys. Whenever I have seen Juan maybe struggle in the heat or on TV and it looks like he's gassed out there, I can always relate'
Despite the error, officials said the shuttle was on course for landing on Thursday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida if weather permits.
A study has shown that only tropical rainforests are strongly beneficial in helping slow down global warming.
Dani Pedrosa kept alive his hopes of a first MotoGP world championship on Sunday with a comfortable win in the German Grand Prix at a swelteringly hot Sachsenring.
Australia likely to play the same squad in Sydney; Both teams to pay tribute to firefighters.
Wilander calls for fifth-set tiebreaks after six-hour semi-final
'I think we should have a heat rule, it's not healthy to be out there getting dizzy and stuff and the poor ball kids out there. There should definitely be a heat rule looked at and put into place'
The US President won the dubious accolade for his appearance in Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'
The weather was a bone-chilling, minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit).
And while the mercury hits its lowest, South Korea's Jang Hye-Ji launched the Games on Thursday by sliding the first mixed doubles curling stone in Olympic history down the ice, before about 2,500 spectators at Gangneung Curling Centre, AFP reported.
Sub-zero temperatures could be a real issue for visitors in Pyeongchang for this month's Winter Olympics, but while Games fans shivered, athletes on Monday welcomed the cold.
The 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar will not be played in the summer months, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said on Wednesday.
Disability activist Virali Modi recounts her life's most challenging moments and how she turned adversities in her favour.
A summary of Tuesday's action at the US Open.
More shocking than his departure was the manner of the 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 7-6,(3) loss to the Australian, with Federer simply wilting in the suffocating humidity and exiting a Grand Slam before the quarter-finals for just the fifth time since 2004.
Japan is being scorched by an intense heatwave that has prompted fears of similar extreme weather when the sporting showpiece takes place in the country.
The sweltering heat killed 57 people across Japan in the week from July 29 to Aug. 4, the Disaster Management Agency said on Tuesday.
Millman advanced to a quarter-final match-up against sixth seed Novak Djokovic.
IMAGES from Day 9 of the US Open matches played on Tuesday
The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colourful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea
Kepler-90i -- a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days -- was found using machine learning from Google to scour data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope.
The Emmy nominations for 2018.
'Everyone always talks about how hot Melbourne is but the US Open's way worse'
Sonal Gupta shares this totally gluten free recipe made from brown rice flour and urad dal flour.
The year 2016 was officially the Earth's warmest since record-keeping began in the 1880s, the World Meteorological Organization announced on Wednesday.
Erika Villaecija did as thousands of Rio de Janeiro's residents and visitors did on Sunday afternoon - she went to the city's famed Copacabana Beach.
Portuguese substitute Silvestre Varela grabbed a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser to secure a 2-2 draw with the United States in World Cup Group G on Sunday.
A summary of the action on Day 3 at the US Open.
The findings come just weeks ahead of a UN climate summit in Paris.
World number one Novak Djokovic produced sublime form to clinch an unprecedented fifth men's title at Indian Wells with a 6-2, 6-0 demolition of big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic in the men's final.
The weather was the number one topic of conversation at Wimbledon on Tuesday but for once it was not the prospect of rain that brought out the umbrellas but a beating sun on what was forecast to be the hottest day of the year.
World number one Novak Djokovic is a red hot favourite to overcome all opponents and clinch another Australian Open title this year, although extreme temperatures will be a wild card the Serb has to watch out for.
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