Iran's women's rugby side, who made their international debut in 2009, have reportedly been banned from playing, in an apparant clampdown on women's sport.

Women’s rugby fans have the option of watching live web streaming of two of the upcoming test series between England and World Champions New Zealand. Through RFU.com England’s matches against the Black Ferns on November 29th and December 3rd at Esher RFC while the opening game is live on Sky Sports.

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We bring you the latest from the Asian Division II Championships where China, Laos, the Phillipines and Thailand battled it out for the title. The 15 aside tournament was played over three days in hot conditions in the Chao Anou Vong Stadium in Vientiane and the overall event was won by China.

Elche in Spain was the venue for a fascinating one-day tournament warm-up tournament for the international sevens season this week. The women’s tournament featured four of the top six teams from the summer’s European Championship - Spain, Netherlands, France and Portugal - but it was Spain who had most to prove, which the duly did by lifting the title.

A new women´s rugby podcast has been launched with issue one looking at the 7s game and speaking to names such as Maggie Alphonsi and Scrumqueens.com Ali Donnelly. Launched by Kathryn Anastasi, who works fulltime with talkSPORT, the podcast will be available regularly from iTunes.