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In the USA, the three singles - Taste, Please Please Please and Espresso - equalled a record set by The Beatles 60 years ago, according to the Brit Awards' organisers.

It was their 14th straight defeat, a first in Rome for 18 years and equalled their worst series of results in championship history.

It slapped identical tariffs on US aluminium and steel, and ensured the total dollar value of the American goods it taxed equalled the US tariffs on Canadian exports.

Some records have been equalled or broken but the active weather was not spread evenly across the season.

Warren Gatland's Wales equalled the country's record losing international streak of 10 successive Test defeats after Fiji triumphed in Cardiff.