Oliver Conway

Our reporter Shona McCallum has been there.

Shona McCallum.

Before the World Cup began, there were fears over the treatment of visitors to the United States.

Some fans and even a FIFA referee were indeed turned away.

But many of the supporters who did make it to America were given a warm welcome.

The city of Lawrence in Kansas is hosting Algeria, and residents have been wearing the team's kit while shopfronts are adorned in their colours.

In Dallas, a huge flag was unfurled to welcome Croatia.

And in Boston, 50,000 Scotland fans, known as the Tartan Army, have been partying and reportedly drinking the bars dry while entertaining the locals with dancing and singing in the streets.

Scotland won their first game in the Boston Stadium and returned there tonight to take on Morocco.

Some 5,000 Scotland fans are staying in another nearby city, Providence, just over the state line in Rhode Island.

Brad Livingstone is the drum sergeant in the Rhode Island Highlanders pipe band and has been helping to welcome the Scottish fans.

Brad Livingstone.

Finally, it's been described as a subtle story of forbidden love and a gentle portrait of grief and longing.

Cactus Pears, a film in the Marathi language, has captured the hearts of Indians as well as international critics and the South Asian diaspora.

Tom Brook reports from New York.

In India, like in many countries, so many queer stories remain hidden within communities, within families.

And there are an absolute multitude of stories that really, we felt, need to be told.

In queer cinema generally, so much of what is made and shown centres around an urban life and very often centres around a white Western life.

So the fact that we can set this authentically in India in a rural setting is hugely important.

And that is all from us for now, but the Global News Podcast will be back very soon.