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Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin appears to have lost her bid for a second term, with her party headed for defeat by two conservative opponents in an extremely tight three-way race for control of parliament. The centre-right National Coalition Party claimed victory Sunday evening with around 97.7 per cent of the votes counted, coming out on top at 20.7 per cent. They were followed closely by right-wing populist party The Finns with 20.1 per cent, while the Social Democrats garnered 19.9%. With the top three parties each getting around 20 per cent of the vote, no party is in position to form a government alone. Over 2,400 candidates from 22 parties were vying for the 200 seats in the Nordic country's parliament. READ MORE: Popular Russian military blogger killed in bo...

A 28-year-old former student shot through a door to get inside a private Christian school in Nashville before killing three nine-year-old students and three adults in their 60s, US authorities said. The shooter, identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, entered the Covenant School via a side door and was armed with at least two assault-style rifles and a handgun, said Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron. At least two of them were believed to have been obtained legally in the Nashville area. READ MORE: 'Historic' strikes leave Israel at standstill with crowds in streets to protest judicial reform  Children from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands as they are taken to safety after a deadly shooting at their school on Ma...

A surviving victim of a pair of "infamous" shark-hunting orcas has been identified in the waters off South Africa, sporting massive scars. The victim, a 3.5 metre female great white shark, was spotted July 2017, at Seal Island in False Bay, off Western Cape. Photos show clear "rake marks" along the shark's side, which were left by the apex predators' conical-shaped teeth. READ MORE: Three nine-year-olds among dead after US school shooting The 3.5-metre great white was scarred after its battle with the orcas. (Alessandro De Maddalena) A paper, published earlier this month, concludes the marks were left by Port and Starboard. The two orcas have been hunting sharks along the Gansbaai coast, which is around 100 kilometres east of False Bay. The pair are teari...

Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding Catholic hierarchs accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse, expanding the norms to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that vulnerable adults can also be victims of abuse when they are unable to consent. Francis reaffirmed and made permanent the temporary provisions of the 2019 law that were passed in a moment of crisis for the Vatican and Catholic hierarchy. That law had been praised at the time for laying out precise mechanisms to investigate complicit bishops and religious superiors, but its implementation has been uneven and the Vatican has been criticised by abuse survivors for continued lack of transparency about the cases. READ MORE: Anti-trans activist Posie Parker leaves NZ after c...