It’s a luxury many Aussies take for granted, but France is bitterly divided over whether residents should use airconditioning to combat a brutal heatwave.

Millions of people across France woke up drenched in sweat on June 23 after another night of scorching heat, with most of the population exposed to extreme and exceptional…

The early-summer wave is already drawing comparisons to the 2003 disaster that killed 15,000.