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The largest lottery jackpot in US history — a whopping $656mn (€492m) — will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland, but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday.

Powerful storms have roared through middle America, with weak tornadoes touching down in isolated spots and severe thunderstorms threatening several states.

I REALLY should have begun this letter with Dear Barack. I feel I can call you by your first name because I have known you quite intimately for so long. I have known you all your life.

With over a dozen people already dead and rivers still rising in parts of the US, there are fears many communities could flood again.

Floods in central America have killed at least 13 people, with more still missing.

A deadly winter storm that caked America’s centre with a thick layer of ice claimed at least 17 lives and blacked out more than 600,000 homes and businesses.

Two people were killed when their mobile home was battered by a storm, US authorities said today.

THUNDERSTORMS packing tornadoes and hail as big as grapefruits ripped through eight mid-western states, killing at least 27 people, injuring scores and destroying hundreds of homes.

Tornadoes swept through portions of the Midwestern United States, killing at least three people in Missouri and blowing roofs off homes in Illinois and Arkansas.

ANOTHER round of volatile spring weather spread tornadoes and heavy rain across the US midwest and south yesterday as some communities were still trying to recover from the weekend twisters that killed 40 people.

Storms battered the Tennessee and Ohio valleys with tornadoes, high wind and hail before the system swept east.