This Saturday is a special bonus draw on the New Zealand main Lotto game.

The 2012 holiday promotion has been running for a week or two, but the actual draw takes place this Saturday 5th January 2013.

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The final UK Lotto jackpot of 2012 proved lucky for 2 winners, with each claiming a new bank balance of £2,147,58.

But there were also five ‘runners up’ who were happy enough to have managed to hit a Match 5 + Bonus prize of £264,317.

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The Christmas Cheer Board in Winnipeg runs a campaign at this time every year to deliver Christmas Hampers to the needy.

But this year the news reports revealed the board had run very short on funds, and been left with a significant debt.

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If wrong lottery results get published it usually ends up being for a small local newspaper, and an overworked do-it-all reporter trying to beat a deadline.

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Roger Custer, a retired man from Levittown has come forward as the winner of the $50 Million Powerball jackpot won on 5th December.

He was accompanied by wife Linda for an official presentation.

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It’s the lottery with the largest prize pool of them all, measured in Billions not Millions. The jackpot prizes remain fairly modest – but the Christmas El Gordo pays out a lot of them instead.

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This was not  a typical day in the unemployment queues.

Spain has been suffering severe economic problems for a number of years now, something that is no stranger to the ever increasing lines of unemployed Spanish people.

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Young teenager Kieran Maxwell is thrilled to have now received the operation that should change his life for the better.

Big EuroMillions winners the Weirs donated the funds so Kieran could go through with the expensive operation to give him a new state of the art prosthetic leg.

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One of the major winners of the 2012 Christmas El Gordo is already known.

The first €4 Million prize goes to some unemployed workers from Alcala de Henares – a small town badly hit by Spain’s ongoing recession, just outside of Madrid.

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What more could a young man want for Christmas than a check from the lottery company for a million dollars.

And at just 21, Asif Khan has had his Christmas wish come true.

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