Winners of the first prize in the 2024 Christmas Lottery 'El Gordo' Extraordinary Draw corresponding to the number 72,480 celebrate their luck at the Centro Deportivo Municipal San Blas. Jesús ...

Spain’s 200-year-old holiday lottery, "The Fat One," delivered a hefty prize again this year, with over $2.8 billion in prizes warbled out by schoolchildren and watched live around the world. The ...

Spain's Christmas lottery showered 2.77 billion euros in prizes on Monday, with a significant number of winners of the top ...

MADRID (AP) — For weeks, Spaniards had anticipated the arrival of “El Gordo” or "The Fat One." But unlike Santa Claus, El Gordo arrived three days before Christmas, before noon on Sunday. El Gordo is ...

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If you’re here in Madrid on Friday, then you won’t go far without hearing one of the kids from the San Ildefonso school singing their way through the winning lottery numbers. This year, the lottery ...

Just two days before Christmas Eve, Spain's iconic Christmas lottery delivered an unprecedented pay out of €2.77 billion ...

MADRID — Spain kicked off the winter holidays with its huge Christmas lottery known as “El Gordo,” and an unemployed Peruvian woman was among the winners of The Fat One’s top 400,000-euro ($425,000) ...

MADRID — People across Spain are tuning into the television, radio and internet as children from Madrid's San Ildefonso school Friday began singing out the prize-winning numbers in Spain's huge ...