Europe

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has revealed that the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has already taken around 3,000 samples from the country's athletes for testing as part of its investigation into allegations of widespread doping.

Italian Serie A football club AS Roma has taken another step forward in its plans to develop a new 52,500-seat stadium after the Assemble Capitolina recognised Stadio della Roma as a project of public interest for the City of Rome.

Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer has extended a commercial partnership with automotive manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.

The Belgian Football Association (URBSFA/KBVB) and Royal Netherlands Football Federation (KNVB) have announced that their BeNe League women’s club competition will not be retained beyond the current season.

Rugby league’s Super League is planning to stage one-off fixtures in London from 2016 or 2017 in a bid to boost the sport’s profile in the English capital.

Sergio Marchionne, the new president of the Ferrari Formula One team and car company, has called on the motor-racing championship to undergo a “revolution” if it is to appeal more to younger fans.

The World Curling Federation (WCF) has announced that Scotland will host four major international curling championships between 2016 and 2020.

Uefa has issued penalties to Turkish club Bursaspor, Romanian duo CFR 1907 Cluj and FC Astra Giurgiu, and Lithuanian team FK Ekranas in the latest punishments handed out by European football’s governing body through its Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has stated the country’s capital city Astana will play a role if Almaty wins its bid to host the 2022 winter Olympic Games and has played down concerns over the level of investment needed to stage the event.

The European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) tournament operator has announced that rugby union clubs from Russia, Spain, Portugal and the Italian top division will feature in an expanded qualifying competition for the 2015-16 edition of the European Rugby Challenge Cup.

Air Race 1, the international series for the sport of formula one air racing, has announced that the United States, France and the UK will host events during its inaugural World Cup season.

Swiss Super League football club FC Sion has said it will lead a bid to secure the 2026 winter Olympic Games for its home canton of Valais.

The International World Games Association (IWGA) has rescheduled the dates for its 2017 World Games in Wroclaw, Poland to avoid the multi-sport event clashing with that year’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.

English Premiership rugby union team Saracens has called for the league to scrap its salary cap to ensure its teams remain competitive among Europe’s elite.

Billionaire Dietmar Hopp’s majority control of German Bundesliga top-tier football club Hoffenheim has been approved by the DFL, the country’s football league.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) will choose between Stuttgart, Germany and Rotterdam, the Netherlands for the host of its 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.