1.   A scorching midday sun makes the filthy air feel like an industrial furnace.

2.   Punta Alegre is a small coastal village where fishermen chase after tuna and baseball is played even under a scorching midday sun.

3.   Songbirds chirp in a nearby pine tree and a bouquet of red and pink cloth flowers defies the scorching midday sun.

4.   Few Angolans ventured to the congress building in the scorching midday heat for the inauguration, which was televised.

5.   Sheep and horses shield themselves from the scorching midday sun by huddling beneath the stone arches of largely intact frames of ancient stone houses.

6.   Several hundred residents, some weeping, crowded behind police barricades under a scorching midday sun, pleading to get nearer the high school.

7.   Under the scorching midday sun, the shanties grow hot as ovens.

8.   Demonstrators, many of them women covered in the black veil in the scorching midday sun, chanted anti-Serb and anti-US slogans.

9.   Voters cast their ballots under a large tree that protected them from the scorching midday sun.