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From drinking the bars dry to lustily serenading an iconic baseball stadium with a rendition of "Flower of Scotland", the bagpipe-playing, kilt-wearing hordes of the Tartan Army have captivated Boston since arriving at the World Cup.

France braced for another heatwave, with Paris allowing swimming in one of its canals so residents could cope with the temperature.

Cuba's communist leaders were set to meet on Wednesday to discuss plans to revive the collapsing economy in the face of a devastating US blockade.

The BBC will axe some programming and may impose compulsory redundancies to deliver hundreds of millions of pounds of previously announced savings, its new Director-General Matt Brittin told staff on Wednesday.

One of President Donald Trump's pet beauty projects for Washington was supposed to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look blue, like part of the US flag. Enter Mother Nature. Algae have proliferated in the water, turning it a swampy green.