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Spain ‘El Gordo’ lottery provides break from crisis woes

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People celebrate after winning the first prize of Spain's Christmas lottery named "El Gordo" (Fat One) in Granen, in Manises, near Valencia, on December 22, 2012. The world's richest lottery showered prizes of up to 2.5 billion euros ($3.3 billion) on crisis-hit Spaniards in an annual draw of the "El Gordo" or "The Fat One". The jackpot went to number 76058, which is split into a total of 1,800 "decimo" tickets each paying out 400,000 euros. TOPSHOTS AFP / JOSE JORDAN

Hundreds of fans of Spain’s annual Christmas lottery turned out to the draw on Saturday, some clad in wacky costumes and all hoping to win a piece of the pie and forget their economic woes.

Posted: December 23rd, 2012 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

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