Six people died because of the heat, 4241 people were taken to hospitals for a week, from July 3 in Japan, the fire department of the country, which is responsible for the ambulance service, also reported.

A rush to receive donated clothes resulted in a stampede in central Bangladesh that killed at least 20 people Friday, police said.

Violence in Iraq has killed more than 5,500 civilians over the first six months of the year, the U.N. said Friday in a new report that documents the massive humanitarian toll of an ongoing Sunni militant offensive in the country.