A Tunisian truck driver living in France mowed down at least 84 people in the seaside city of Nice on Thursday during the height of evening festivities for Bastille Day, before being killed in a shootout with police.
Even at the height of summer, even under the midday sun, they are places of murk and mystery, blotting out the light with a mille-feuille of foliage.
Dubonnet: my first Christmas drink, aged about 12, and still for me the height of sophistication, even when drunk with lemonade.
That's how he was able to achieve the height of cynicism, even as he raised a glass and anticipated Rita's favourite toast.
In the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, where citizens are protesting against stubborn power cuts that have made the height of summer even more unbearable, a high of 49C will be the norm this week.
This former 13th-century royal capital crafted out of an outcrop half the height of Sigiriya even hosted the Buddha's tooth that's now in Kandy (see above) for a time, though few visitors make it here now.
But officials in Henan, as well as some in Beijing, remained just as determined to suppress news of what had happened in villages such as Shuangmiao in the 1990s.Victims and activists say that not a single official has been punished for his role in the plasma trade, during the height of which even police and army units set up plasma-buying stations to boost their incomes.
"However, this still leaves a capacity gap of 40 beds at the height of winter even if all schemes deliver 100% impact".
The artist's particular soft-spot for teletext relates to the cultural moment in which he first encountered it: "To me, teletext always represented the height of technology, even when I discovered it in the mid 1990s," tells Farrimond, "It was an on-demand news service before mobile phones and the Internet were anything more than expensive geek playthings".
