Europe

Euroleague Basketball will fit its officials with micro-cameras for the first time when Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona face one another on Thursday.

Berlin has retained its hosting rights to the EHF Cup Finals after the European Handball Federation confirmed the men’s club showpiece will return to the German capital this year.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has created a new unit dedicated to the growth of its endurance and mass participation event portfolio.

French company Vinci Stadium has been awarded a 25-year contract to manage and operate the former Olympic Stadium, the venue which acted as the centrepiece of London’s staging of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The International Netball Federation (INF) has awarded the hosting rights for its 2019 World Cup to the English city of Liverpool.

Spending by English Premier League clubs in the January transfer window remained stable in 2015 but summer activity helped the league to a new yearly high, according to analysis by the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.

Formula E has announced a new race in Moscow on June 6, expanding the inaugural season of the motor racing championship to 10 events.

The Tour of Corsica is expected to return to the World Rally Championship (WRC) as the motorsport series seeks to retain its full calendar of 13 events for 2015 by securing a replacement venue for its French round.

Barcelona is facing further scrutiny over the signing of Brazilian superstar Neymar after a prosecutor said the Spanish Liga football club, and its former president Sandro Rosell, should stand trial for evading around €9m ($11.2m) in taxes through the deal.

Lagardère Unlimited, the sports marketing division of French media conglomerate Lagardère, has launched a new agency dedicated to the digital sports market.

A new full-service sports consultancy dedicated exclusively to mixed gender and female sports has launched in the UK.

The SportsIndex Annual Report, from research company SMG Insight, analyses UK public awareness and news sentiment for 50 domestic and international sports events, creating a "peak buzz score" determined by the net difference between the amount of respondents hearing positive news and those hearing negative news. The 2015 edition reveals that the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was the UK's best-perceived sports event in 2014.

World football players’ union FIFPro has said it is prepared to take legal action in order to ensure footballers who are not paid their wages on time are able to move to a new club.

A number of major European domestic basketball leagues have joined forces to discuss the way forward for their competitions, as well as the European game as a whole.

The English Super League has expressed its belief that the appointment of Shane Richardson as a senior executive by the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) will drive the development of the newly expanded World Club Series competition.