This Is How You Beat The Heat PHOTOS

The heat this year has been record breaking. Not only the US but the whole world is facing scorching heat. Things are luckily easing u on the US front but elsewhere people are still sweating it out like never before.

Here are some ways people have been keeping their cool.

This little girl has found the perfect solution, even if a temporary one. She forgets the heat as she plays in a water fountain in the centre of the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

Tourists enjoy the beach of the Promenade des Anglais as summer holidays started with temperatures close to 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in Nice, France.

Fed up of the scorching sun, these Pakistani boys take their baths with buffaloes to cool off on the banks of the Ravi River during a hot day in Lahore.

A boy plays in a fountain during a hot weather spell in the center of Kiev, Ukraine.

Um Ahmed (R) looks after boys playing at her portable swimming pool at a shanty town in eastern Cairo. The pool set up on top of the hill offers respite from the summer heat.

Turner Field vendors use bags of ice to stay cool while working at the baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the Washington Nationals at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia.