The lottery billed as the world's richest is bigger than ever this year, with prize money totaling $2. 4 billion. The Spanish Christmas sweepstakes is known as El Gordo, or the fat one. Winners will be announced this week in a three-hour televised ceremony with all of Spain watching. It's estimated that three out of every four Spaniards buy tickets. Instead of a single jackpot, El Gordo uses a system that results in thousands of winning numbers. Prizes range from a ticket's face value all the way up to the first prize. Though the event goes back to 1812, this year's version brings a big changes - most notably, first-prize winnings are 50 percent higher -- or about $360,000 each.

A thief tried to rob a Mexican restaurant, but couldn't get the job done when he encountered an employee who pretended he didn't speak English. Muncie police Sgt. Al Williams says that when James Adams, 44, tried to rob the Puerto Vallarta Mexican Restaurant and Cantina, one employee stalled the thief by pretending he only spoke Spanish.

A San Diego designer is giving her $215 shoes away. . . for free. The shoes not only serve as footwear, but are also designed for migrants who are trying to enter the country.

Guinness World Records has officially recognized L. Ron Hubbard, acclaimed author and the founder of Scientology Dianetics, as the world's most translated author. This new world record, officially verified as 65 languages, beats the previous record of 51 languages set in 1997 by American author Sidney Sheldon. It also exceeds the unofficial count of 63 for "Harry Potter" novelist J. K. Rowling and the 64 languages translated for "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Dutch teenager Anne Frank.

LaChania Govan called her cable company to complain and was repeatedly bounced around from operator to operator. At one point, she was transferred to a Spanish speaking operator - a language she does not understand. She knew she had gotten someone upset when she received her August Comcast bill, addressed to "Bitch Dog. "