England's World Cup-winning wing Abby Dow announces her retirement from rugby at the age of 28 in order to focus on a career in mechanical engineering.

Ireland second row James Ryan receives a three-week ban after the red card he was shown in the weekend defeat by South Africa was upheld.

The Rugby Football Union announces a 10-year high revenue of £228m in its latest financial accounts, but returned a small overall loss of nearly £2m.

After a flurry of red-card reversals and TMO interference during the Autumn Nations Series - what state is international rugby in?

After 22 matches over four weeks brought the best of the northern and southern hemispheres together, here are the star performers.

Gloucester-Hartpury sign Ireland loose-head prop Niamh O'Dowd as injury cover for the rest of the season.

Wales are without a raft of top players to face world champions South Africa on Saturday, but are boosted by the return of Aaron Wainwright.

In his latest BBC Sport column, England World Cup winner Matt Dawson discusses Steve Borthwick's side's perfect autumn and how the next step will be winning a Grand Slam.

Wales wing Keelan Giles signs a new, undisclosed contract to remain with Ospreys.

Director of rugby George Skivington says Gloucester are discussing a possible restructure at the top-end of their coaching staff.

In the latest edition of the BBC's Ireland Rugby Social podcast former Ireland scrum-half Conor Murray selects the best XV he played with during his career.