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US Powerball jackpot grows to $422mThe US Powerball jackpot grew to $422 million ahead of an 11 p.m. EDT drawing on Wednesday, making it the eighth largest in the game's history and the 11th-biggest lottery prize ever in the United States. The jackpot amount ha More… |
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One ticket wins $429m Powerball US lotteryOne winning ticket matched the numbers drawn on Saturday night for the multi-state Powerball jackpot for a payout estimated at $429.6 million, the ninth-highest US lottery prize in history, officials said. The winning numbers sele More… |
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3 tickets win $564m Powerball jackpotThree lucky ticketholders in North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico won the estimated $564.1 million US Powerball lottery jackpot on Wednesday, the Powerball website showed. The jackpot, which reached the half-billion dollar mark a More… |
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$590m jackpot winning ticket sold in FloridaA single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where More… |
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Greek PM eyes Qatar investmentsGreek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will be visiting Qatar next week to discuss investment opportunities inside Greece, a Greek embassy spokesman in Doha said. Samaras will meet Qatar's Emir and prime minister as well as top More… |
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Three tickets win record $656m in US lotteryThe largest lottery jackpot in US history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said. A More… |
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Lottery, prizes ‘top consumer frauds’Lottery and prize scams are among the leading consumer frauds globally, said an expert, advising consumers not to be fooled by imposters tempting them with big financial prizes and counterfeit checks. It’s tempting to play a foreign lotter More… |
Britons biggest lottery ticket buyersBritons (46 per cent) are the biggest buyers of lottery tickets or participants in competitions and raffles in an effort to boost their financial success while close to two thirds of Argentineans (64 per cent) and Russians (58 per cent) disagreed More… |
Fraudsters become more sophisticatedPatricia Soens paid more than $400,000 in processing and other fees to claim a European lottery prize she was told she had won. After realising she had been conned, she killed herself. Soens, 56, of Louisiana, fell victim to one of a growi More… |
