Cali, a sprawling metropolis nestled amid Colombia's southwestern mountain ranges, has long been known as the country's capital of salsa and the breeding ground for an ultra-rapid, particularly aggressive form of the music.

Glasgow has Christmas all wrapped up - festive shopping and entertainment in on of the UK’s most vibrant cities. With Glasgow positively aglow throughout the festive season there is no better place to get Christmas all wrapped up!

Uncle Sam Jam Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie. Food and drink, children's entertainment by Radio Disney, music by Ghost Town, 5:30, The New Orleans Concert Band and Navy Band New Orleans, at 7 and a fireworks display, 8:30. Free.

They hawked church cookbooks, dipped corn dogs in hot oil, whirled children in a four-seater ride, strolled along streets with ponies and sold $1 bottles of water to quench sugary thirsts.

Journalists Juan Ameen and Claudia Calleja, Media Maker advertising executive Veronica Grech Sant and journalists Ariadne Massa and Fiona Galea Debono.