WHAT a piece of work is a man?” pondered the eponymous foot-dragging prince in Shakepeare’s Hamlet, and some 400 years later the world — or, at the very least, the advertising world — is still grappling with that same question.

David Beckham is suing a magazine on the grounds it knowingly published false claims about his private life.

The Financial Regulator is warning consumers not to do business with two investment firms that have been operating illegally in Ireland.

Weak demand for bumper Christmas issues today saw media group Emap reveal a fresh slump in magazine sales ahead of its planned break-up.