Brian McCarthy, the 25 year old son of the Marriott Hotels boss Robert McCarthy, may have just become more wealthy overnight than his father.

Robert McCarthy may have earned a salary of $1.2 Million in 2009, but his son just won $107 Million on the Mega Millions lottery.

It was only a month ago we brought you the news of the Kraftmaid lottery winners.

Well, it has now been revealed there is a potential 23rd member of the office pool – Edward Hairston.

John and Darlene Kinzel have come forward as the winners of the $40 Million Lotto Max draw from Friday 19th August.

The couple, from Paradise Hill, a small village in Saskatchewan, claimed their big win on Friday.

An unnamed couple just collected $10 Million on the Australian Powerball. They knew pretty quickly they had won on checking the numbers – as they’d been playing the same numbers for over 36 years!

Possibly one of the most unusually named recent lottery winners, Kricket Slik of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada just hit the jackpot with a win of $3,489,606.80 on the Canada Lotto 649.

The first big winner in the ‘Right On The Money’ game from the Virginia Lottery has been announced.

Thomas Wurtz from Christiansburg is a Vietnam war veteran.

Michael Rowinski, 64, and a family man, took just an instant to decide what to do with his lottery winnings – share it with the family.

Apparently 54% of Irish workers would keep their job even after winning a lottery jackpot.

The survey conducted by Peninsula Ireland, an employment law consultants, not only showed that most people would keep working – but that 45% would keep going until they reached retirement age.

The latest Mega Millions winner has now come forward, in Boston.

Candido Oliveria, 47 and a father of 2, has just been announced as the winner of the jackpot from Friday 19th August.

Maire McKibbin and her family syndicate of 6, just won a cool £1,134,307 on the UK Lotto.

But once the money is divided up, Maire intends to give most of it away to 2 charities she supports.