Elite Syrian troops backed by helicopters and tanks have regained control of a town where police and soldiers joined forces with the protesters they were ordered to shoot – a decisive assault from a government prepared for an all-out battle to keep power.

Elite Syrian forces have moved swiftly through the country's restive north, raining tank shells on rebellious towns, torching farmland and shooting protesters who tried to tear down a poster of President Bashar Assad, activists and refugees said.

Cameron Diaz is grateful the man who scouted her had honourable intentions.

Multiple Group One-winning mare Soviet Song has been tested in foal to top sprinter Oasis Dream.

Connections of New Seeker are keeping an eye on the ground and the opposition before choosing from two engagements in the next week.

Top weight New Seeker has been ruled out of the William Hill Lincoln Heritage Handicap at Newcastle later this month.

Elite Racing Club, Britain’s largest ownership syndicate, have sent one of their horses to be trained in America.

New Seeker will attempt to be the Elite Racing Club’s first winner in Italy when he runs a Group Three contest in Milan on Sunday.

Connections of Soviet Song are in hurry to decide whether to commit the mare to the Emirates Airline Champion Stakes on Saturday week.

Clive Cox is switching from employee to employer by buying Beechdown stables in Lambourn from the Elite Racing Club.

Soviet Song’s Royal Ascot target is more likely to be the Windsor Forest Stakes rather than the Queen Anne Stakes.

Connections of Soviet Song would be “disappointed if she didn’t run a nice race” on her comeback in tomorrow’s Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury.

ELITE Racing Club are likely to wait a couple of days before deciding on running plans for Soviet Song and New Seeker, their two possibles for the Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes on Saturday.

Elite Racing Club has high hopes for Eisteddfod in the major six-furlong sprints this season.

New Seeker looks set to seek his fortune in Group races this campaign following two big handicap wins and a Listed success last season.

A full sister to Soviet Song has joined the multiple Group One winner by going into training at James Fanshawe’s Pegasus stables in Newmarket.

James Fanshawe’s star mare Soviet Song will be kept in training next season in a bid for her to add to a impressive tally of five Group One successes.

Soviet Song will not run again this season after being held up in her work by a sore foot.

ELITE armed garda officers are patrolling a Dublin suburb amid fears of further bloodshed in a spiralling gang war.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been blacklisted by the man who helped launch her catwalk career - because she is "nasty" and "temperamental".

Soviet Song will this weekend start the build-up to her defence of the Cantor Spreadfair Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

Soviet Song is reported to be in fine shape as she prepares for a repeat win in the UAE Equestrian And Racing Federation Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket a week tomorrow.

Elite Racing Club are likely to to have a team of six supporting their main hope Soviet Song at Royal Ascot at York next week.

MANCHESTER UNITED are set to get dragged into a nasty court battle over how Quinton Fortune ended up with Alex Ferguson’s son Jason’s Elite Sports Agency.

Manchester United are set to get dragged into a nasty court battle over how Quinton Fortune ended up with Alex Ferguson’s son Jason’s Elite Sports Agency.

MANCHESTER UNITED fans think the club should be praised, not condemned, for coming clean about their massive payments to agents.

MANCHESTER United will tighten up its procedures governing the buying and selling of players, following a review undertaken after pressure from major shareholders John Magnier and JP McManus.

MANCHESTER UNITED will force agents to sign a declaration of impartiality to ensure the club’s transfer dealings are beyond reproach.

Manchester United will no longer use the Elite Sports Agency to act on their behalf in transfer negotiations to repel accusations of a conflict of interest.

Alex Ferguson’s son Jason has insisted both he and the Manchester United boss will stand firm in the wake of the current crisis rocking Old Trafford.

Super-skinny and recently-fired actress Lara Flynn Boyle is thinking of becoming a model.

A New York jury has ordered Elite Model Management agency to pay €4.7m to a former employee who said she was fired after complaining that cigarette smoke in the office aggravated her asthma.