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When Marie and Kirby Fontaine scooped the first $50 million Lotto Max Canada win we wonder if they realised that there would be no tax to pay on the massive jackpot? According to the Canadian Tax policy the Lotto Max win is tax free simply because the Canada Revenue Agency believe that enough revenue is already generated from ticket sales making it 'an important source of funds for charities, provincial governments and other non-profit making organisations'.

Winning a £45 million jackpot means that you can live your dreams and this was certainly true for Les Scadding. As well as buying a brand new Range Rover this lucky Euromillions winner dines with Motorhead in his plush hotel suite to celebrate his birthday. Whilst one reporter has said that winning a lottery jackpot can lead to misery, this doesn’t appear to be the case for Les. A pair of £55 tickets for his favourite band was originally enough for this big Motorhead fan to celebrate his 59th birthday but it just kept getting better!

It’s that time of the week when we round up the major world lottery results and see who's won what, where?  There were new lottery millionaires created in the UK National Lottery, Irish Lottery and Powerball Lottery draws but there are still one or two rollover jackpot draws which you can buy tickets for in the week ahead.  But was it you?  Did you pick the all-important winning lottery numbers for any of this week’s world lottery draws?

When you think about playing the lottery you often think of the lavish property you could buy with your huge jackpot windfall, if you ever won it.  However a couple in London have effectively cut out the middle man by putting their home up as a prize in their very own lottery.  They are offering people the chance to buy tickets in a lottery for a luxury house in Belgravia, one of the most exclusive areas in London.

Here at World Lottery we are often bring you news of unclaimed lottery prizes from around the world and recently a whopping £3,204,588 had remained unclaimed from the Halloween draw for the National Lottery. Although compared to other unclaimed prizes, 20 days isn’t long, the National Lottery Halloween jackpot was claimed yesterday.Someone who bought a ticket in West Sussex was either taking their time to let the massive win sink in or had been scrabbling around in desperation to try and find the winning UK National Lottery ticket.

On Friday of last week the first ever Euromillions Millionaire Raffle was drawn and as the name implies, a millionaire was made. However there appears to be a little Millionaire Raffle controversy as players question why it is expected that the extra cost to participate is made when with the UK National Lotteries Dream Number, a similar game to Millionaire Raffle, is optional. Should players be able to opt in or out for the Millionaire Raffle?

It was only yesterday that we spoke of the Mega Millions game to be launched in Iowa, today we can tell you that it’s Powerball for the Texas Lottery if the panel gives approval to the rules. This is another step forward in the plans for cross selling Mega Millions and Powerball over all the states in the US and will probably not be the last news about additional games that we bring you.

Details are still to be finalised but the news today is that Mega Millions is launching in Iowa after the Iowa Lottery approved the game. The vote took place yesterday following talks between the US Lottery directors and state lottery commissions to work towards cross-selling both the Powerball and Mega Millions games in 2010. The Powerball game is currently sold in 30 states but at the moment Mega Millions is only available in just 12 states.

Right now the Italian SuperEnalotto is the world’s biggest lottery with a staggering jackpot of €88.8 million on offer in the next draw on Tuesday evening. It’s been weeks since the popular Italian Lottery had a winner and lottery fever is taking hold right across Italy as players vie to be the next big lottery millionaire. Notoriously one of the hardest lotteries in the world to win, rollovers are common for the SuperEnalotto but jackpots of this magnitude not quite so common which is bound to attract a lot of interest in the lottery world.

As another week comes to a close it’s time to count up the millionaires created in the world lottery draws and with so many draws going off around the world, that should equal plenty of millionaires. So did we have a glut of millionaires or a handful of rollovers? Let’s check the Saturday night lottery numbers and find out. Good luck to all those playing and check those tickets carefully to see if you were a lottery winner this Saturday evening.