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The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush.

Nike's flagship shop in New York temporarily closes as the sportswear firm battles an infestation of bedbugs.

Amazon says it has reached an agreement to purchase online shoe retailer Zappos.com.

NBA scoring champion Dwyane Wade is changing shoes, making the switch from Converse to Nike's Jordan Brand.

Good news for Payless. As if you really needed another reason to go shoe shopping, a new study finds that women who wear high heels not only have toner legs, but they also have better, more pleasurable sex lives.

Something is rotten in the state of... Vermont. A seven-year-old US boy has smelt his first whiff of success - for owning America's most malodorous trainers.

The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, provoking outrage among some Iraqis who consider him a hero.

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at the former American president, George Bush, will go on trial on Feb. 19, charged with assaulting a foreign leader.

A lecture by Chinese premier Wen Jiabao was disrupted when a human rights protester threw a shoe at him Monday.

A sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed, the director of an Iraqi orphanage said Saturday.