Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar, an Indian living in Dubai, survived a crash landing at Dubai airport last week and then won $1mn in a lottery organised by the airport's duty free operator.
One winning ticket was sold in Indiana in the Mega Millions lottery on Friday, earning the jackpot worth $540mn, the seventh largest in US lottery history, lottery officials said.
A Tennessee couple came forward on Friday with what they said was one of the three winning tickets for this week's record US Powerball lottery jackpot, appearing with their lawyer on NBC's ‘Today’ program.
