“The nerve-shredding vote-counting was about to begin at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, after 25 countries did battle Saturday at the world's biggest live televised music show. Thousands of glammed-up fans filled the Wiener Stadthalle arena in the Austrian capital to watch the showpiece, which kicked off with a burst of Mozart. A fiery Finnish duo, acclaimed Australian star Delta Goodrem and a floor-filler from Bulgaria are among the favourites to win this year's Eurovision, where, as always, the razzmatazz didn't escape the geopolitics in the background.
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