Scotsman: A HEATWAVE is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought-hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as the continent sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.
Temperatures have soared in large parts of Australias key agricultural regions for most of the past week, with the mercury topping 48 degrees Celsius in the central west Queensland town of Birdsville.
The heatwave is moving east, prompting health warnings in some of the countrys biggest...