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The winner of the 57th annual Eurovision Song Contest with 372 points is Sweden! The winner got points from all over Europe. See the final scoreboard below:

Congratulations to Loreen for winning the contest with her entry "Euphoria". This is Sweden's fifth victory in the contest, are we heading to Stockholm in 2013?

EBU just revealed some interesting details about Thursday's voting. It appears that two countries had exactly same number of points and the 10th qualifier was decided in a different way.

Right after each semi-final, the ten winners went to draw their start positions for Saturday's big final. Now we have all the finalists and the running order known.

Grand Final - 26.5.2012 21:00 CET

Unfortunately eight great artists had to leave the competition after tonight's second semi-final. Ten new qualifiers completed the lineup for Saturday's grand final.

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Tonight the second, and last semi-final will be competed and the remaining ten spots in the final will be filled.

Live show from Baku, Azerbaijan begins at 21:00 Central European Time and will end by 23:00. 18 countries are competing and they can all vote for their favorites. Also United Kingdom, France and Germany will par...

The organisers of this year's song contest, European Broadcaster Union together with Ictimai TV held a press conference in Baku a moment ago. Preliminary dates for next year's contest were also revealed.

After the first semi-final, the qualifiers went to draw their starting positions for Saturday's final.

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1. United Kingdom

2. Hungary

3. Albania

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18 countries, 10 qualified, 8 goes home. Although the artists enjoy being in Eurovision Song Contest, this is a competition. The qualifiers of the first semi-final were just announced in a random order, read more below.

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After yesterday's terrible bus accident, the Albanian broadcaster decided not to broadcast tonight's first semi-final live.

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It has been also decided by EBU and RT...