Bad week for:

Romance, after a British man lit hundreds of tea-light candles in his apartment, poured two glasses of wine, then went to fetch his girlfriend to propose. The couple returned to find the apartment engulfed in flames, but firefighters said she “still said YES!” Phoenix, the warmest city in the U.S., which broke its own record for most 110-degree days in a single year, with 35 and counting, and is having its hottest summer in history.

New Zealand, which had its record of 102 days without a single new coronavirus case broken when four members of a family in Auckland tested positive. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern immediately reimposed tight restrictions on the country, which has had just 1,125 confirmed cases and 22 deaths.