More than two million people have now attended matches at the England 2015 Rugby World Cup following a thrilling weekend of quarter-finals action, while attendances at official fanzones have also been praised.

Australia and Argentina triumphed at the expense of Scotland and Ireland respectively in today’s Rugby World Cup quarter-finals meaning there will not be any Northern Hemisphere teams contesting the penultimate stage of the competition for the first time in history.

A late Fourie du Preez try helped South Africa edge past Wales to set up a Rugby World Cup semi-final against New Zealand, who destroyed France in a rematch of the 2011 final.

Rugby Sevens making its Olympic Games debut at Rio 2016 will take the sport to a “whole new level”, 2003 Rugby World Cup winner Dan Luger said here today, adding that the shorter format of the game was a major factor in rugby’s development worldwide.

There was something rather surreal about sitting in the sun in our idyllic excuse for a press tribune at last weekend’s beach volleyball World Tour Finals in Fort Lauderdale, checking our phones every five minutes to be reminded of the misery unfolding four thousand miles away as England crashed out of their own World Cup with a humiliating and resounding defeat to Australia.

“Now I think about it,” chortled one sympathetic American journalist afterwards. “You English really are rather useless at sport.”

Football is supposed to be the beautiful game, but the side we have seen of the sport of late has been anything but.

Corruption, scandals and crisis are words that have become entwined with the everyday lexicon associated to football at a time where the global reputation of the game has been consistently dragged through the mud by the likes of FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA head Michel Platini.

Yea verily, we are at the epicentre of significant sporting activity. Even as we speak. ( Even though we are not actually speaking. But you get what I mean.)  

Romania stunned Canada by coming back from 15-0 down to win for the first time at this year's Rugby World Cup today.

Construction company Gallowglass have vowed to sneak into the Olympic Stadium in London and remove key materials used for the retractable seats in order to disrupt Rugby World Cup matches after claiming they have not been paid for work they carried out on the venue.

We’ve seen enough over the last 17 days to suggest England’s premature exit from their home Rugby World Cup at the hands of arch-rivals Australia in brutal fashion at Twickenham Stadium won’t be a terminal blow to the overall momentum of the tournament.

Holders New Zealand reached the knock-out phase of the 2015 Rugby World Cup after seeing off the challenge of a battling Georgia team in their Pool C encounter at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

Wales took a giant stride towards the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup as they recorded their third straight win by beating Fiji 23-13 in Pool A in front of a raucous home crowd at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Tonga gained their first win of the Rugby World Cup today with a bonus-point earning 35-21 victory over Namibia at Exeter's Sandy Park to keep alive their slim hopes of quarter-final qualfication. 

Crowds at next year’s World Rugby Sevens Series event in London will be dramatically reduced while bars will close earlier in a bid to cull drunken behaviour, the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) has announced.

Argentina stormed away in the second half to beat Georgia 54-9 at the Rugby World Cup in Gloucester today.