Skechers is being acquired for nine billion dollars (£6.78 billion) and taken private by investment firm 3G Capital. The board of Skechers unanimously approved the deal, the companies said on Monday.

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Eighty years on, the UK remembered VE Day with a gathering in the same streets where the defeat of Nazi Germany was greeted with delight and relief in 1945.

The party took control of 10 local authorities in England at last week’s local elections, including Durham, Lancashire and Staffordshire.

The theft affected dozens of trains travelling between Madrid and the southern Andalusian cities of Seville, Malaga and Granada.

Senior royals waved to thousands of people from the Buckingham Palace balcony as a Red Arrows flypast continued the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in ...

A 14-year-old boy who died after a fire at an industrial estate “was loved by all who met him”, his family has said. Layton Carr was found inside a building at Fairfield industrial park in Gateshead ...

The board has approved Mr Buffett’s chosen successor as chief executive, veteran Berkshire executive Greg Abel, 62.

A family has had to evacuate their home and lost irreplaceable items after a burst water pipe flooded their house. The Haxby family found ...

The 68-year-old actor read extracts from Churchill’s speech from VE Day in 1945, standing in front of a statue of the wartime leader.

Captain Bryan Warren, 87, a veteran Argyll and Sutherland Highlander, shared memories of being evacuated as a child to ...

Straw versions of Dumbledore, Professor Stephen Hawking and Dr Dre have taken over a village in Wiltshire. Urchfont Scarecrow Festival returned on Saturday with around 55 unique offerings to go with ...