The £90,000 former council house that Matt and Cassey Topham used to call home suddenly seemed small after the couple won £45 million in the lottery last February. 

A man in the UK, desperate to sell his £125,000 home has added lottery tickets to the deal.

Alan Hodgkinson promises to purchase £10,000 worth of lottery tickets from the National Lottery using the proceeds of the home sale, and the first £125,000 of any winnings will be used as a refund for the buyer of his home.

A man from Christchurch New Zealand has a habit of buying lottery tickets and then forgetting about them; he may yet change his habits after a big win.

Last April 8, California became the 43rd state to join the multi-state Powerball lottery.  In the first draw, a ticket sold in Buena Park in Orange County became the first California million winner, to the tune of $1.3 million.

The Canadian Lottery has announced that the biggest jackpot ever won for the 6/49 game will give each of four winners, $15,853,471.30.  The jackpot resulted from nine consecutive draws without a winner.

Gwynedd Roberts of Danderhall, may have given his wife Lesley the best wake-up call ever.

After checking his emails one fine morning, he discovered that he had won £361,988 from the Euromillions Lottery. 

A bill that would protect the identities of lottery winners, which has passed the Arizona house on a vote of 51-8 last February, was voted down by the Senate on a vote of 16-11.

In a story that sounds like fiction, Charles Sells and his fiancée followed their streak of luck to a million dollar payoff from the Tennessee Lottery.

Kelly Caldwell, 29, an air stewardess from Runcorn is the latest winner of £1m in EuroMillions millionaire raffle.

It was an incredible streak of luck for the 7-year veteran of Easyjet, as she had won £700 playing Bingo on Good Friday. 

When a works syndicate group of Ardrey Kell High School Cafeteria workers found that they had won $10,000 from the lottery, they immediately thought of colleague Sophia Tatsis, who had been to ill to come to work since December.