Three winners share $1.6bn US lottery Powerball jackpot

An eye-popping and unprecedented Powerball jackpot whose rise to $1.6bn (€1.47bn) became a USA national fascination will be split three ways.

The winners’ identities remain a mystery, but they bought their tickets in Florida, Tennessee and a Los Angeles suburb.

The winners of the world-record jackpot overcame odds of 1 in 292.2m to land on the numbers drawn on Wednesday night, 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.