Ghana’s Herbert Mensah has been elected as the new President of Rugby Africa after easily beating his only rival, Uganda’s Andrew Owuo, and has promised to launch a new programme to revolutionise the sport on the continent.

French Rugby Federation (FFR) President and "self-suspended" World Rugby vice-chair Bernard Laporte has been released without charge after being detained for questioning by police in Paris in relation to a tax fraud investigation.

World Rugby vice-chair and French Rugby Federation (FFR) President Bernard Laporte has been handed a two-year suspended prison sentence having been found guilty of offences including illegal taking of interest, influence peddling, passive corruption and embezzlement.

There will be an equal number of men's and women's teams in the World Rugby Sevens Series from December 2023 and a reimagination of the competition format, under changes adopted by the world governing body.

Australia's Charlotte Caslick capped a year which has included World Cup, Commonwealth Games and Sevens Series titles by winning the World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year honour.

Australia has five representatives out of a possible eight nominations for the World Rugby men's and women's sevens player of the year awards.

London 2012 logistics planning and operations lead Mick Wright has been announced as the chief of operations within the EventsCo division by World Rugby.

World Rugby and the International Working Group (IWG) on Women and Sport have announced a four-year strategic partnership, calling on sporting leaders from around the world to support gender equality in the industry.

Xero, a global small business platform, has become the fifth official sponsor of the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in South Africa with the competition set to start in less than 40 days.

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) will introduce a new gender participation policy next season in line with that of World Rugby, which will mean contact rugby for players in the female category is limited to those whose sex was "recorded as female at birth".

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive Katie Sadleir believes World Rugby can help to "show the way" for other International Federations (IF) to ensure there are more women in high-ranking positions.

The World Rugby Sevens Series is set to include an equal number of men's and women's teams and stop at new locations under plans to "reset" the format of the sport prior to the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Romania's place at next year's Rugby World Cup in France has been confirmed after a Spanish Rugby Federation (FER) appeal against a points deduction for fielding an ineligible player was rejected.

World Rugby has refused to hear an appeal from Russia to lift a suspension imposed on it following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The World Rugby Council is expected to rubber-stamp the hosts of four Rugby World Cups at a two-day meeting beginning tomorrow.