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Austria’s Conchita wins Eurovision 2014 Final – Malta in 23rd Place

Firelight has made it to the Final of Eurovision 2014.. They will be singing “Coming Home” tonight.

Firelight is a folk band, which was set up in 2013. Richard, their lead singer tried out for The X Factor UK the same year Leona Lewis won, making it through to bootcamp.

It represented Malta in Eurovision 2014.

Malta ended up in 23rd place with a total of 32 votes. Very much unlike last year when Gianluca Bezzina ended up in 8th place.
Malta received 10 points from the UK and 12 from Italy. We gave 12 points to Italy too.

Conchita Wurst from Austria has won this year’s Eurovision with the ballad “Rise Like A Phoenix”.

austriaconchita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNHdDaFrLTU

Some other entries from the Uk, Italy and Poland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloomyEXfUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RRqSOcUcJI

 

Earlier this year, Firelight won the Malta Eurovision Song Contest.

 

 

MH370 – The Mystery of the Century

Looks like the missing plane MH370 is turning out to be the mystery of the century. Apparently relatives have been told via Text messages to fear the worst that their relatives are most likely dead,how horrible being told like that via text message.

[From BBC News report]:

China has demanded that the Malaysian authorities make available the evidence on which they based their announcement about the jet’s fate.
And some relatives of Chinese passengers expressed scepticism about their conclusion, as the plane has not been found yet.

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