Two children aged two and four have died after being found unresponsive in a car in Carpentras, France, with temperatures soaring above 40C

Europeans are bracing for a week of soaring temperatures, sweltering in a heatwave with daytime highs above 40 degrees.

Two children were found dead in a car in southeast France on Monday as the country faced the hottest day of a brutal heatwave that is forecast to last until the end of the week.…