Hospital worker takes Monopoly crown

A Spaniard captured the World Monopoly Championship today after building up a fortune from just 1,500 US dollars – in fake money – and ruthlessly forcing three other would-be tycoons from Europe into bankruptcy.

Antonio Zafra Fernandez, a 36-year-old hospital laboratory technician from Madrid, Spain, dispatched the other finalists in less than two hours at the ritzy Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Tokyo.