Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing ended the lottery game's three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. Final ticket sales pushed the jackpot higher, making it the second-largest in U.S. history.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

Never in a million years would I have ever believed that I would be thirty-six years old and still childless and single. But here I am." On screen she's just 33, and expresses these sentiments in ...