$255 million for Spain's lottery winners

The first prize in Spain's annual El Gordo lottery, billed as the richest in the world, has gone to the small town of Segovia near the capital, Madrid.

The prize was worth a record forty-six-and-a-half billion pesetas -- that's equivalent to two-hundred-and-fifty-five million dollars.

Since Spanish lottery tickets are traditionally shared, it's estimated that practically all the town's forty-eight-thousand inhabitants are now peseta millionaires.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service