Choosin’ Texas unseats All I Want for Christmas as longest-running No 1 song on Billboard Hot 100

Church, a prominent supporter of Palestinian causes, criticises Sheeran over removal of Macklemore from US tour

Billionaire owner of Ineos says company ‘cannot compete’ with global market despite efficiency of Humberside sites

Some of continent’s biggest pharma firms write to national leaders calling for action to safeguard their futures

The hoard, buried south of Cologne in the second century AD, is the biggest coin treasure ever found in Germany from the time of Hadrian

Thousands flee fighting as Iran-aligned group seeks to consolidate territorial gains against Saudi-backed government forces

MPs send out letter as Israeli government seeks bids for construction of large E1 settlement in West Bank

Party leader tells conference growth created by rejoining EU single market and customs union would fund change

EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age

Lord Newby is to chair the inquiry, commissioned in response to the discrimination case brought by David Campanale who is claiming £790,000 in damages

The Argiope bruennichi, spotted in Cheshire for first time, part of worrying trend that could threaten native species

Study shows trade deficit ran at more than €1bn a day in July, days before Xi Jinping’s summit with Donald Trump

Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech

Scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achieved

RBA governor says AI is ‘great white hope’ but its adoption is so far adding to inflation, rather than economic growth