Unemployed couple hit the €10 million jackpot

IT is said that a person is more likely to get struck by lightning or be attacked by a shark than winning the lottery. But a very lucky couple in Velez-Malaga has beaten the odds and come away as the winners of Spain’s most popular lottery.

An unemployed housewife and a waiter are the winners of €10 million after getting seven numbers right of the 7/39 lottery, otherwise known as the ‘Lotto de la ONCE.’ ONCE is a Spanish foundation which raises funds to help blind and visually impaired people. One of their most popular products is a charity lottery ticket known as the coupon. To win the 7/39 draw, lottery players must get seven numbers right out of 39.

The ONCE lottery tickets are sold in clearly labelled kiosks. Dolores Leon, 44, remembers selling the couple the winning lottery ticket. Her kiosk is located on Camino de Malaga.

“I remember selling it at 8.37pm. It was the last ticket I sold before calling it a day, so I know who won,” said Leon.

Though she refused to disclose more information about the couple, she said they are habitual customers and that they went back the following morning asking what they should do to claim the prize money.

“They came back asking what they should do. They only said ‘Thank you. We really needed the money.’ They were at a loss for words,” she added.

The winning ticket was sold on the day of the draw. Leon says it was a slow day because most people were home watching the coronation of Felipe VI of Spain.

Cristobal Martinez, Director of ONCE in Malaga, Dolores Leon and the neighbours of Velez-Malaga celebrated the draw with a glass of sparkling white wine.

Tapes reveal teen's massacre plot

• John LaDue says he didn't care for Adam Lanza because he shot small children


• But he said he was going to kill his family first, just to have a higher death toll


• LaDue told police that he is mentally ill and asked to see a psychiatrist

(CNN) -- John David LaDue readily admits he came from a good home and says he was never bullied.

But something in him drove the 17-year-old Minnesotan toward an obsessively detailed plot -- one in which, he said, he wanted to kill his family, set off bombs at a school and then shoot students.

"I think I'm really mentally ill," he told police. "And no one has noticed. I've been trying to hide it."

Transcripts of LaDue's police interviews were released Tuesday. They fill more than 140 pages.

Teen: I want as many victims as possible

And they offer, in his own words, a chilling glimpse of a teenage boy and his homicidal mindset -- and how far he had wanted to go to act on it.

LaDue was arrested in April before he could carry out his attack. He sits in jail facing numerous charges, including attempted murder. He has pleaded not guilty.

CNN does not usually publish the names of minors charged with crimes but is naming LaDue in this case because his name has been widely reported in his community.

Despising Lanza

LaDue's mother told police she had no idea he was allegedly plotting to kill his family.

Yet, he said, he plotted right under her nose. He made no effort to hide anything. He told police they'd find three live bombs in a box on the floor next to his bed.

LaDue said his main target was Waseca Junior/Senior High School. But first, he said, he was going to kill his father, mother and sister.

"They did nothing wrong; I just wanted as many victims as possible," he told officers who questioned him.

He said he wanted his attack to be more effective than Adam Lanza's shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary.

He had a low opinion of Lanza, he said, because he shot small children.

"I didn't want to be known as a guy who would go to a place with a bunch of kindergartner(s)," he told police. He thought it more honorable to kill students his own age.

LaDue had studied mass killers in the United States dating back to the 1920s and rated them on the intensity of their crimes, he said.

He had a pecking order of killers he admired. One of his favorites used explosives to kill people at a school.

Another Columbine

After slaying his family, the teen, who idealized the Columbine school shooters in particular, allegedly wanted to set a fire.

The arson, however, would only be a diversion to tie up emergency responders while he carried out the main plot at the school, police said.

He'd planned to set off "numerous bombs" during the lunch hour at Waseca Junior/Senior High School, then kill the school resource officer.

Then he'd shoot at students until police officers arrived. He wanted to die but thought it cowardly to turn the gun on himself the way Lanza did.

"I wanted to get taken down by the SWAT," he told officers, according to the newly released documents. "I really wanted to get out of this place."

Plan foiled

Luckily, a witness thwarted his plan when she saw the 17-year-old tending to a storage locker, where he kept his stash of bomb-making materials.

She dialed 911.

Officers arrived to find LaDue in the locker surrounded by an assortment of gunpowder, pyrotechnic chemicals, ball bearings and a pressure cooker, police said.

Mental torment

LaDue asked his interviewers to let him see a psychiatrist over his state of mind.

In the eighth grade, he was a model student, whose report card was filled with top grades, he said.

A year later, his thoughts began to turn dark.

"I started having homicidal ... thoughts about some people in my school," he told officers.

Homemade bombs

He loved his chemistry class in particular and developed a fascination for explosives. Recipes to concoct the volatile chemicals were right at his fingertips.

"I spent hours, maybe hours a day reading websites of how to synthesize things like mercury fulminate and nitrocellulose, HMX, HNB and various other things," he said.

His mother described how she'd go to bed and see him still in front of his computer screen, but she had no idea what he was up to.

LaDue built bombs, starting off with small charges. Police found videos he made of himself setting off his homemade devices.

He tested them then tinkered with their designs to improve them, he said.

A close call

The teen's cache in the storage locker contained just pieces of the puzzle.

Police got a search warrant in April and went to LaDue's home, where he lived with his family.

Behind that door lay finished bombs, "numerous guns" and ammunition, police say. And they found LaDue's neatly laid plan in a journal dozens of pages thick.

A bomb squad removed all recovered explosives and destroyed them by controlled detonation at a local airport.

They did so just in time. Everything was prepared and ready to go; LaDue was just waiting for the right moment to launch the scheme.

A lucky calendar this year may have prevented him from hatching his plan earlier -- before it could be thwarted.

He had wanted to carry it out on April 19, a day before the 15th anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. The date fell on a day when school was out.

"But then I had to skip it," he said. "I wanted it to be in April, because it's my favorite month ... because that's the month that all the really bad tragedies happened."

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CNN's Ric Ward, Cristy Lenz and Emma Lacy-Bordeaux contributed to this report.

High court kills Aereo; so what now?

• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against streaming startup Aereo


• Aereo used micro-antennae to pick up broadcast networks for users


• Some are turning to digital options instead of cable


• New shows, live events are still tricky to get

(CNN) -- Aereo, the embattled startup that captured shows from the broadcast airwaves and let users stream them digitally to their computers, smartphones or tablets, is essentially dead after a Supreme Court ruling Wednesday.

The court, in a 6-3 vote, ruled that the service violated copyright laws, even though it was using miniature TV antennas to access publicly broadcast signals from local TV stations. The startup has said there was "no Plan B" for its survival if the court ruled against them.

The owners of ABC, Fox, NBC, Univision and other broadcasters had filed suit against Aereo. (Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, was not a plaintiff in the case, but did support the broadcasters.)

Aereo started in the New York City metropolitan area and is now online in New York and 10 other U.S. markets. It charges $8 a month and has never revealed how many users it has.

So, now, the question becomes: What will Aereo's users do instead?

Presuming that Aereo does, in fact, cease service as it now exists, there are other options out there for folks still unwilling to fork over the money for cable TV. From apps to Web-streaming hardware, products exist with which millions have already "cut the cord."

But, as with much of life, there are upsides and downsides to this approach.

Here's a look at what's out there, what people like about it and what cable still has that the Web can't duplicate.

Why do we binge-watch TV?

Amazon takes aim at Roku and Apple TV

Streaming hardware

In the past few years, the market has been flooded with devices that can stream Web content to your television.

Startups with dedicated devices, like Roku, soon were joined by some of tech's major players. Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung all have streaming devices with varying capabilities, and all the major video game consoles can be used to do so as well.

Once a techie luxury, devices like Google's Chromecast or a low-end Roku can now be had for as little as $35-40. That's come in handy for folks looking for alternatives to traditional television because ...

Apps are everywhere

Ask people who don't have cable or a satellite dish what they use to watch television and a short list of apps are mentioned again and again: Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.

Streaming accounts for each offer TV shows and movies. Hulu focuses on new TV episodes (or, at least, newer ... more on that later) while Amazon and Netflix are mostly movies and previous seasons of popular shows.

For some, that's enough to substitute for the full array that cable offers. Especially when paired with ...

Rabbit ears!

A growing number of products can stream Web content onto users' televisions. Here is our look at some of the market's top devices.

The latest entry in an increasingly crowded Web-streaming market, Amazon's Fire TV lets the user search content with their voice.

The Apple TV box can stream content from iTunes, which is a bonus if you're a heavy Apple user.

At $35, Google's Chromecast is the least expensive streaming device and maybe the easiest to use.

As a gaming console, the PS4 obviously has other uses. But it streams video from some key apps -- and offers a Blu-ray player.

With more than 1,000 channels, the Roku 3 may offer the widest selection of any streaming device.

At $50, the Streaming Stick offers the same wealth of content as the Roku 3, although it's a bit slower from time to time.

This $150 media player replaces the user's cable box and offers content from more than 100 apps (but not Hulu).

Microsoft's Xbox One console can play live television as well as streamed video from Netflix and other top apps.

Top Web streaming devices

Top Web streaming devices

Samsung Smart Media Player

Top Web streaming devices

OK, so maybe the antenna you'd go out and buy today wouldn't bear much of a resemblance to the twin-pronged, set-top gadgetry many of us remember from our childhoods (tinfoil wrapped round the tips optional).

But with a digital antenna, you get the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox), PBS and other local stations in a lot better quality than you used to get. Put that together with the streaming options and you're starting to build yourself back up. However ...

The drawbacks

Despite all the digital options, there are some things that you just can't replace when you pull the plug on cable. If you fall back on watching only broadcast networks, for example, your picture quality may suffer.

Also, none of the above-mentioned apps stream TV shows as they are airing. On Hulu, many shows aren't available until 24 hours after they air. In the age of plot spoilers online and on social media, that's risky. And it gets worse.

Fox and ABC have chosen to wait eight days before letting non-subscribers watch new shows.

It's even tougher to keep up with your premium cable favorites. HBO made news in April by announcing it would make some old shows like "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" available on Amazon. But a three-year delay means "Girls" or "Game of Thrones" fans are still out of luck. As are those fans hoping to watch ...

The big game

Ask non-cable subscribers about the holes in their new TV setup and many bring up live sports. While many cable networks stream via their websites and mobile apps, most, like WatchESPN, require a cable subscription to access them.

If you enjoy hitting your local sports bar, this may not be such a big deal. If you're more inclined to kick back and watch sports at home (particularly if you follow a team outside the city where you live) it's tough.

In the end, the cable-vs.-digital debate appears set to continue for a while, much like many other situations in which emerging technology has collided awkwardly with entrenched institutions.

But, for better or for worse, the Supreme Court on Wednesday didn't help the digital side's cause.

Will and Kate's upgrade cost what?

• Refurbishing empty palace for Duke and Duchess of Cambridge costs British taxpayers $7.6M


• Residence in Kensington Palace was "uninhabitable"; asbestos was discovered


• Royal couple also spent their own money on additional improvements


• The residence will be used as a home and for official engagements

London, England (CNN) -- How much does it cost to renovate an "uninhabitable" wing of a 17th century palace to make it fit for a future king and queen? Now we know: £4.5 million ($7.6 million).

That's what the British taxpayer has put toward the refurbishment of Apartment 1a, Kensington Palace, which recently became the official residence of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George.

But the true cost is higher, because the couple also put in hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money for additional improvements.

For example, public money was used to renovate the existing kitchen, but Catherine and William wanted a second "family kitchen," which they paid for themselves.

A royal spokesperson said: "Kensington Palace has a working kitchen provided by the Sovereign (public) Grant to support receptions and other public events which might be hosted there. There is also a much smaller family kitchen paid for privately by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge."

Prince William, Beckham join forces

The general rule applied to the project was that basic works would be paid for from the public purse, and anything beyond that would be covered by the Cambridges themselves.

It was a major renovation. The apartment was last lived in by the Queen's late sister, Princess Margaret, but in recent years was used as office space.

It needed updating and reshaping into a family home. Asbestos was discovered throughout the building, so in the end, nearly everything was stripped out internally, and even the roof had to be replaced -- all to exacting standards to meet historic building regulations.

The name "1a" downplays the grandeur of the property, with its more than 20 main rooms and expansive garden. But what's it like inside?

Well, we haven't been allowed in to see, but a Royal Household source describes "a very ordinary level of furnishing." And added: "It's not opulent."

The project was subject to the normal competitive tendering processes, and an independent quantity surveying firm confirmed to the Household that the costs are "commensurate with building projects of a similar size, sensitivity and complexity."

It won't be open to the public though, which begs the question: Why are they paying for it, especially when the Cambridges are also renovating a private home outside London?

The Household source confirmed that the apartment would be used for official engagements, which means invited guests and, presumably, media will get a chance to see inside.

The Queen received £36.1 million ($61.3 million) from the British Government for the 2013-14 financial year in what's called "The Sovereign Grant," and it covers the costs of her public duties and the upkeep of palaces including Kensington.

There's a major backlog of repairs throughout the estate -- 40% of it isn't up to standard, according to the Household source. Most of the services in Buckingham Palace date back to 1949. So was Kensington Palace given priority over other repairs? "Yes, in that we needed it for occupation," said the source.

The figures have been revealed in the Royal Household's Annual Report and Accounts, which also showed Prince Charles spent nearly £250,000 ($425,000) on a private jet to Nelson Mandela's funeral.

The Household source says there was massive demand for charter flights by heads of state to attend and that was the cost to charter at that time. "This was the only realistic way of getting him there in time."

The palace points out that the cost of the monarchy is 56p (95 cents) per head of the British population, but that doesn't cover the vast costs of security for the palaces and individual members of the royal family. The Royal Household source notes: "The cost of security is a cost of terrorism rather than a cost of the monarchy." And that, they point out, is something they cannot control.

Spain announces tax reform

Mariano Rajoy’s government has announced new tax reforms that will kick into touch tax breaks for wealthy footballers.

The Spanish Popular Party government (PP) initially approved a tax law in 2005 to enhance the country’s competitiveness and provide additional support to economic growth.

The tax decree originally aimed at bringing in highly skilled workers such as scientists and engineers from abroad, but it also attracted well paid foreign professional sportsman, who would pay income tax on all annual earnings at the minimum rate of 24 percent.

The move was coined “the Beckham tax Law”.

Jose Luis Zapatero’s socialist government established a new rule in 2010 to the law, and set a limit on annual income to €600,000, for foreign workers to be qualify for the 24 per cent tax rate in 2010,

This year’s new tax reform proposal includes cuts to Spain’s income and corporate tax rates, while foreign players, just like any Spanish taxpayers, will no longer benefit from the Beckham law if their income surpasses €60,000.

Gary Oldman apologizes for remarks

Actor Gary Oldman arrives at the Academy Awards in 2012.

• Gary Oldman apologizes for remarks in Playboy interview


• His statements about hypocrisy and Mel Gibson controversial


• Anti-Defamation League said words feed into anti-Semitic beliefs


• Jewish organization finds apology "insufficient"

(CNN) -- Gary Oldman has written a letter apologizing for statements he made in a Playboy interview that have been slammed by Jewish groups.

In a letter to the Anti-Defamation League, Oldman said he was "deeply remorseful" for the comments about Mel Gibson, which the ADL said put forward anti-Semitic stereotypes.

"I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy Interview were offensive to many Jewish people," Oldman said. "Upon reading my comments in print -- I see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype. Anything that contributes to this stereotype is unacceptable, including my own words on the matter."

Gary Oldman goes off on hypocrisy, political correctness, Gibson and Baldwin

In the interview, on newstands Friday and already published online, Oldman wades into the controversies involving Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin, though to be fair, he does so in the context of ripping hypocrisy and political correctness.

Gibson was pilloried for anti-Semitic remarks he made in 2006; Baldwin was criticized for lashing out at paparazzi with an anti-gay slur last year.

"Mel Gibson is in a town that's run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he's actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him -- and doesn't need to feed him anymore because he's got enough dough," Oldman said in the interview. "But some Jewish guy in his office somewhere hasn't turned and said, 'That f***ing kraut' or 'F*** those Germans,' whatever it is? We all hide and try to be so politically correct. That's what gets me. It's just the sheer hypocrisy of everyone."

Oldman's longtime manager, Douglas Urbanski, defended Oldman in a statement to CNN.

"I have looked at the Playboy interview a few times now -- in fact I was in the room during the entire 8 or 9 hours. I am unaware -- as I have seen reported -- of Gary Oldman defending any anti-Semitic remarks in the interview, or, for that matter, anyplace!" said Urbanski.

"He would not do so, and in fact he finds any kind of bigotry, homophobia, anti-Semitism, racism or sexism unacceptable and disgraceful. Period. If you read the Playboy piece correctly and entirely, and in context, it is the hypocrisy of political correctness that Gary is addressing, nothing else."

The ADL, however, was not placated by Oldman's apology.

"We have just began a conversation with his managing producer. At this point, we are not satisfied with what we received. His apology is insufficient and not satisfactory," ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said.

The Playboy interview appears in the magazine's July/August issue. Oldman stars in the forthcoming film "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes."

French air strike chaos deepens

The French authorities had predicted that the air controllers strike would not cause as much chaos as people feared, however, air passengers stranded in airports would disagree.

Delayed and cancelled flights have caused thousands of would be travellers to sleep on the floor of Spanish, Portuguese and French airports, some face being grounded for a week as they wait for their flights to be rescheduled.

To add to the turmoil, flights are being cancelled with no prior warning and families are left frustrated with the lack of information they are being given. To add to the confusion, airport staff are unwilling, or unable to give out news on scheduled flights without any guarantees that the flight would actually take off.

During the strike, which is expected to last until at least Monday, many airlines have had to provide accommodation for stranded passengers, amid angry holidaymakers, some of whom have to deal with small children in the midst of the chaos.

French airline authorities have blamed striking staff for holding them to ransom and have asked staff from other countries to manage French airspace during the crisis, and have asked foreign flights to be grounded rather than take up air space.

To add to the problem, Belgian air traffic controllers also went on strike on Tuesday.

Over the first two days of the strike, EasyJet has so far cancelled over 300 flight,Ryanair250 flights and British Airways over 30.

Marketing chief of Ryanair, Kenny Jacobs, said EU governments had to step in and stop French air traffic controllers ‘holding people to ransom’ with their regular walk-outs: ‘It’s a disgrace,’ he said. ‘The French need to sort this out. Ronald Reagan had the right idea when he broke the air traffic controllers’ strike in the USA by sending in the military to run it.

‘Strike action by air traffic controllers should be made illegal. And if they do go on strike, neighbouring EU countries should be able to operate the airspace over France to keep planes flying.’

A spokesman from Easyjet said: ‘We have booked around 2,800 hotel rooms to date and some passengers will also have booked their own accommodation and will claim it back from us.

‘We are advising passengers on cancelled flights to either claim a refund or re-book after the strike period has finished.’

UK airport queues were less affected as airlines had ‘pre-cancelled’ most of the affected flights and warned passengers in good time to stop them from making their journey to the airport.