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International News Brief: A jobless 55-year-old Frenchman and one of his seven children shared a prize of 75.88 million euros Saturday after selecting combinations of the family's ages in the multi-nation Euro Millions lottery.

International News Brief: Online gaming firm 888 has set the price range for the planned sale of its shares on the London market at between 162-212 pence per share.

International News Brief: The roulette wheels could soon stop turning at casinos across the capital after staff at Gala’s five London casinos voted to take industrial action in a duspute about pay.

A woman has won £196,000 with just 40 pence bet on Coral Casino.com.

International News Brief: Hyatt Regency Hotels announced that it intends to open its casino in Tirana in October, upon payment of €8 million for the license issued by the Albanian Government in January.

International News Brief: Bookmaker Paddy Power today hailed the online gambling craze as it generated most of its profits away from its high street betting shops for the first time.

International News Brief: After a slow start, the gambling business in Germany has begun to boom. The growth will likely be accelerated by an expected liberalization in the sports betting market and the Soccer World Cup in 2006.

International News Brief: Brian Maccaba, a prominent Irish technology entrepreneur, has resigned from the board of Money Gaming Corporation, an online gambling firm, less than seven weeks after being appointed as its chairman.

International News Brief: A city centre casino is the first drinking spot in Cardiff to apply to serve alcohol round-the-clock.

International News Brief: Portugal will probe online gaming company BetandWin.com Interactive Entertainment AG's sponsorship of the country's national soccer league.

International News Brief: The Sports Café chain is to enter the world of online gambling with the launch of a web casino in September.

The Patent Office in Russia has allowed Kenilworth's Patent Application for playing live, in-progress Casino Table Games from a casino to terminals in remote locations.

International News Brief: The Danish Gaming Service is considering introducing banning access to betting shops for children under 16.

International News Brief: Casino operator Aspinalls has teamed up with community leaders in Newcastle to launch a committee promoting responsible gambling ahead of the opening of its Aspers Casino at The Gate in October.

International News Brief: Singapore investment firm BIL International, subject of a takeover bid by Hong Kong's Guoco Group, said it planned to pay investors a higher dividend for 2005 and would apply for casino licences in Britain.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

International News Brief: It is an odds-on bet that Birmingham will submit a bid to the Government for permission to open a super-casino, according to the politician in charge of the city's regeneration portfolio.

International News Brief: Phone gambling and other games of chance air on Prima TV nightly after midnight and the offerings are on the rise in the Czech Republic.

International News Brief: In July, New York-based Steven Holl Architects won a competition to restore and expand the Albert Place Casino in Knokke-Heist, Belgium.

International News Brief: Russian internal republic of Ingushetia is having all of its gambling establishments closed, the republic’s president Murat Zyazikov said on Tuesday, less then a week after a similar decision was taken in neighboring Chechnya.