Partial results in Brazil's presidential election suggest the far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, will win the first round.

However, he looks set to fall short of the 50% of valid votes needed to win outright.

If he does not reach the 50%, he will face Fernando Haddad from the left-wing Workers' Party in the second round on 28 October.

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Twenty people have been killed in a crash involving a limousine transporting a wedding party in the US state of New York, police say.

All 18 people in the limousine died along with two pedestrians in the incident on Saturday afternoon in the town of Schoharie, police confirmed.

Eyewitnesses described seeing an SUV-style stretch limousine leave the road and plough into people at a store and cafe near a busy intersection.

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Fears are growing over the missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, after Turkish officials said they believed he had been murdered.

Mr Khashoggi, a Saudi national, was last seen visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday.

A Turkish official told the BBC that initial investigations indicated he was murdered there.

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Last year, a record 80 million Americans ventured abroad. In 2018, that number will be even higher. The efficiency and affordability of modern aviation is convincing more and more vacationers to get out there and see the world. But to many, the actual act of traveling is a tedious chore: standing in long lines, subjecting yourself to rigorous scrutiny, delays, cancellations. Everybody's excited to get someplace, it's getting there that causes concern. Fret not. The professionals are here to help.

First let's lay down some obvious pointers. If you're looking to avoid the hassle of a crowded airport, always try and book your flights in and out on a Saturday. With business travelers jamming up Mondays and Fridays and vacationers all returning on Sundays, the first full day of the weekend occupies a beautiful shadow zone of relative tranquility.

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There's a huge amount of matter in the universe that we can't directly see. But scientists can tell it's there. They call it dark matter.

They know it's there because its gravity tugs on the stars and galaxies around it, altering their movement. Dark matter also tugs on light as it passes, bending its path, a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

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It’s not uncommon for infectious diseases to pass from donors to recipients during organ transplantation, but in an extraordinarily rare case, four Britons developed breast cancer years after they received organs from the same donor, despite extensive testing, according to a recent medical report.

Three of the recipients died after the cancer spread from the organs to other areas of the body. The donor, a 53-year-old woman who died of a stroke in 2007, had no known illnesses, said the case report, published in April in the American Journal of Transplantation. 

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TODAY SEES THE publication of the latest edition of Ireland’s 100 Leading Graduate Employers – a result of the largest student careers survey Gradireland have conducted.

Central to the survey was asking students and graduates who they want to work for and what their views are on their future careers.

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Georgia Tech robotics engineer Ayanna Howard builds robots that can handle glaciers, the rocky surface of Mars, and the sudden moves of inquisitive children.

What’s the biggest challenge?

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