Publicis' flagship media agency has published its latest global advertising expenditure forecast, suggesting that Europe is "acting as a brake on global ad growth" compared to the flourishing networks across the world.

Sir Martin Sorrell's agency has posted revenues of over £10bn for the second succesive year in Friday's preliminary results.

Though the world didn't end in 2012, whatever the Mayans predicted surely didn't have all of these disasters in mind...

In a typically colourful speech to the Confederation of British Industry Annual Conference, Mayor of London Boris Johnson gave hope and encouragement to UK and London commerce and business leaders, to strive for an "age of enterprise" in the face of Eurozone austerity.