An Italian woman who believed she had accidentally thrown away her €1 million (about $1.1 million) winning lottery ticket has been reunited with her life-changing prize after sanitation workers recovered it from more than six tons of rubbish. The remarkable recovery took place in Bitonto, in Italy's southern Puglia region, where employees of the public waste management company SANB spent more than a day searching through the contents of a garbage truck before finding the ticket intact.

A €1 million lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on garbagemen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company told AFP.

Waste management workers in Italy successfully recovered a misplaced lottery ticket worth 1 million euros ($1.08 million) from the trash after a frantic...