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By Greg Milam, US correspondent, and Amy Hitchcock, entertainment editor

If you like your Oscars night to be packed with surprises, we have some bad news for you.

It comes from the people who make a living out of crunching the numbers to come up with percentages for the probability of who will win what at the Academy Awards.

This year, they say,

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The Irish general election looks set to be heading for a surprise three-way tie, according to an exit poll.

There had been predictions that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar would struggle to maintain power, but his Fine Gael party are said to be leading the main opposition Fianna Fail - though by only 0.2%, with 22.4% of the vote versus 22.2%.

But the real

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Four critically endangered gorillas 'killed by lightning strike'Four critically endangered gorillas 'killed by lightning strike'

Four critically endangered mountain gorillas, including an infant, have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in Uganda, conservation officials have said.

The Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) said it was "deeply saddened by the unfortunate deaths of four mountain gorillas from the Hirwa family in Mgahinga National Park in

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By Russell Hope, news reporter

Donald Trump has justified the sacking of an official who gave evidence against him to impeachment hearings, calling army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman "very insubordinate".

The decorated soldier, who was working at the National Security Council, was marched out of the White House on Friday, along with his

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Thai security forces have killed a soldier who shot dead at least 26 people during a brutal rampage on Saturday.

Police and military personnel stormed the Terminal 21 shopping mall in the northwestern city of Nakhon Ratchasima to face suspected gunman Sgt Jakrapanth Thomma.

Officials said the soldier, who has been confirmed dead, was angry over a

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More people have been killed by the new coronavirus than the 2003 SARS outbreak, according to latest figures.

A total of 813 people have died from 2019-nCoV, dubbed the Wuhan virus, compared to 774 killed by SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Both are types of coronavirus which originated in China and virologists say they are genetically

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