United Arab Emirates fighter planes based in Jordan have pounded Islamic State militant positions, marking a return to combat operations by one of the United States’ closest Arab allies in the fight against the extremists.

A resurgent Cavalryman met the specialist demands of the Sussex Downs better than his opponents as he led home Ahzeemah in an Artemis Goodwood Cup one-two for trainer Saeed bin Suroor at Goodwood yesterday.

More than two dozen gay Arab men – arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding – could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said today.