Spain's "El Gordo" lottery awards $3.2 billion
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Spain's "El Gordo," the world's biggest lottery, gave out 2.2 billion euros in Christmas prizes on Saturday. via Dose
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A Powerball ticket worth &#36;214.7 million &#151; the 10th largest lottery jackpot on record &#151; was sold in Delaware, but the winner had not yet come forward Monday, Powerball officials said.
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MADRID/LONDON  - Spain's Iberdrola has bid 11.6 billion pounds ($22.5 billion) in cash and shares for Scottish Power to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy.
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RMC, the troubled UK building materials group, was swallowed up for Â£2.3bn yesterday by the world&#39;s third-biggest cement producer, Cemex of Mexico.
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - A man who went to prison three years ago for claiming that he was robbed of Romania's biggest ever lottery prize has won a new lottery jackpot - this time for real.
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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million(1.2 million pounds).
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The Millennium Coastal Park is one of three UK sites battling to land a National Lottery prize.
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A man who won a nearly &#36;315 million Powerball lottery &#151; the largest single jackpot in history &#151; was ordered into substance abuse treatment Tuesday after his second drunken driving arrest this year.
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The locals casino operator posts impressive fourth-quarter results.
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Spain's "El Gordo," the world's biggest lottery, gave out 2.2 billion euros (1.6 billion pounds) in Christmas prizes on Saturday.
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A Pennsylvania-based casino and racetrack operator will buy the owner of Lawrenceburg&#39;s Argosy riverboat casino in a $2.2 billion deal that will create the third-largest gambling company in the nation.
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A Portuguese textile worker who shared Europe's biggest-ever lottery jackpot of 43 million euros (57.6 million dollar) with a friend last month said his life has become hellish since his big win.
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The all-time-high rollover jackpot of the Finnish national lottery, or Lotto as it is known, found a single lucky recipient in the coastal city of Kokkola in Western Finland.
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Bear Stearns is to give $3.2bn to bail out a hedge fund that has lost money in the sub-prime mortgage sector.
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The National Lottery Commission confirms it has received two bids for the next licence to run the lottery.
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Calimesa - A couple who provide funerals for abandoned infants and helped inspire a California law to save unwanted newborns won a $27-million (about R160-million) lottery jackpot - and plan to use the money for their advocacy work.
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Enel SpA, Italy&#39;s biggest utility, will receive 1.9 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in investment compensation from the government and will raise additional cash from asset sales that will be used to boost dividends.