Two people had winning tickets in the $550 million Powerball jackpot, beating the one in 175 million odds for the second largest lottery in American history, the game’s website said early Thursday.

The Cannes film festival wraps on Sunday with no clear favourite to win the Palme d’Or, after weathering a furore over Danish contender Lars von Trier’s off-colour remarks about Hitler.

BEFORE ANYONE gets the wrong idea, Ines de la Fressange would like to point out that you cannot just spend your way into becoming a Parisian.