A UK ticketholder won more than £45m (54m) in last night’s EuroMillions draw, UK lottery Camelot said.

A self-employed builder and his wife who won a Lottery jackpot of nearly £41m (€49) plan to splash out on an executive box at Manchester United — and a new carpet.

Floods and earthquakes that killed two people over the weekend kept hundreds of New Zealanders from their homes today, and dairy farmers on the North Island asked for urgent help moving thousands of cows from swamped pastures.