“Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday with Dara's catchy floor-filler "Bangaranga" sweeping the 70th edition of the world's biggest live televised music event and pushing Israel into second place, whose very participation had triggered a major boycott. Bulgaria has missed the last three editions of the glitzy extravaganza but took the crown for the first time in Vienna, overtaking Israel at the very end as the points came in, with Romania finishing third.
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