Pakistan, Aug. 8 -- The world experienced it's third-warmest July on record this year, the European Union that tracks global warming said Thursday, after two consecutive years when temperatures soared past previous records.

Despite a slightly lower global average temperature, the scientists said extremes - including heat and deadly floods - persisted in July.

"Two years after the hottest July on record, the recent streak of global temperature records is over - for now. But this doesn't mean climate change has stopped," said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. "We continued to witness the effects of a warming world."

The EU monitoring said new temperature records and more climate extremes are to be expect...