Atlanta: The largest lottery jackpot in US history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday. A pre-dawn call alerted Denise Metzger, manager of a Motomart convenience store, to news from lottery officials that her store had sold a winning ticket in the...
08:24 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Beijing: A lottery jackpot worth over 16 million yuan (around $2.5 million) has gone unclaimed in China - making it one of the biggest unclaimed lottery wins in the country. The winning ticket was sold May 30 in Nanjing, capital of southern Jiangsu province. Till July 29, no eligible winners presented themselves, the Nanjing Daily reported. In China, a lottery win expires 60 days after the ticket is sold. The...
11:56 AM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: An Indian-American couple has been charged with fraud for cheating the city of New York of $ 460 million. US attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said that Reddy and Padma Allen have been indicted in absentia in a federal court for what prosecutors describe as a massive and elaborate scheme to steal taxpayer dollars. "The CityTime project was corrupted to its core by...
03:48 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Berlin: An encyclopaedia that anybody can help to write - whether a pupil or a professor? Encyclopaedia entries which are updated from one minute to the next? And all of that financed by reader donations? Ten years ago when online companies vanished almost as quickly as they appeared, nobody thought that a reliable encyclopaedia could go online - without going bankrupt within a few months. And yet, Wikipedia went online...
10:30 AM, Jan 12, 2011
Adelaide: Enthusiastic Australians camped out at parks alongside the Sydney Harbour Bridge to win the best view of Friday's spectacular New Year's Eve fireworks kicking off celebrations around the world. As the clock ticked closer to 2011 across Asia, Vietnam's capital was preparing its first-ever official New Year's Eve countdown and Taiwan planned a massive pyrotechnic display in the shape of a dragon. Europeans were looking forward to a celebration...
12:06 PM, Dec 31, 2010
Looks like Mallika Sherawat will have to make space for another Bollywood entrant trying to make a name in the West. Koyna Mitra, who’s been signed by a management company in the US, is trying her luck in Hollywood. Recently, she got a milkshake named after her at the Millions of Milkshakes place. ...
01:57 PM, Aug 17, 2010
Millions is a film with a big, thumping heart. ...
01:19 AM, Feb 28, 2009
Director Danny Boyle talks about the film's success Oscars and more. ...
03:47 PM, Feb 07, 2009
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