The Treasury hopes the change will push prices down for shoppers and encourage more businesses to allow card payments.
Thousands of people have been flooded out of their homes or left without power after Storm Desmond wreaked havoc in parts of the UK.
The suspected Tube station terrorist punched and kicked one of his victims unconscious before knifing him as he lay on the floor, a witness has claimed.
The stabbing of three people at a Tube station by a man wielding a machete is being treated as a terrorist incident, police have said.
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
HOPPERS lined up waiting for stores to open for Black Friday bargains.
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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