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 school children and watched live around the world.

As per tradition, pupils from Madrid's San Ildefonso ... the top prize, called "El Gordo" (the Fat One), amounts to €4 million for a full ticket. This year, El Gordo will be paid out 193 times ...

Lucky lottery ticket holders have been celebrating in cities across Spain. The Christmas draw known as El Gordo hands out a prize fund of more than £2.2 billion. The pontiff's last public ...