Shares of eBay are soaring before the opening bell Monday as GameStop pursues an approximately $56 billion takeover of the company, seeing it as a vehicle to compete with online retail giant Amazon.

The national gaming retailer said that its approximately 1,600 U.S. stores could become drop-off and shipping locations. One proposal includes live sales broadcasts from GameStop locations featuring eBay products.

“EBay has the second largest commerce franchise and there’s a big opportunity to do something much larger,” Cohen

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — with nearly 150 people aboard, including 17 Americans, was waiting for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after a suspected outbreak of killed three passengers and left at least three others seriously ill, the and the ship’s operator said.

The MV Hondius, which was on a weekslong polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica and then several isolated islands in the South Atlantic, had requested help from local health authorities on Sunday after making

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has floated the idea of privatizing Canadian airports, suggesting it will make them better. But with Canadians already fed up with air travel, as costs seem to go up while service goes down– would that really be the result? And what would the move mean for airport workers across the country?

Host Caryn Ceolin speaks with Siobhán Vipond, vice president at the Canadian Labour Congress, to discuss the case for leaving airports as they are, the hidden costs of privatization, and

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister ruling Hindu nationalist party on Monday wrested control of the state of West Bengal, an opposition stronghold, .

The Election Commission of India released partial results showing the Bharatiya Janata Party won at least 124 seats in the 294-member West Bengal assembly, and was leading in 83 others. Final results are expected Monday evening.

It would be a significant breakthrough for Modi’s party, which had tried for years to dislodge the All India Trinamool Congress government

LONDON (AP) — and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, announced Monday that they are expecting their third child.

Eugenie, the younger daughter of the former and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, is set to give birth this summer, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.

The couple’s two sons , 5, and , 2, are “very excited” to welcome a new sibling to the family, and is “delighted’’ with the news, the palace said.

is the older brother of the

The Ford government is introducing legislation cracking down on drug use on public transit while also targeting illegal drug production.

Under the new law, special transit constables employed by Metrolinx, the TTC and OC Transpo in Ottawa would have the same powers as police officers to make arrests if anyone uses illegal substances in transit areas.

“Come July 1, what we want to do is make sure that people know that we will be using special constables on our transit to clean up the people who are using illegal drugs. And just like

TORONTO — The Ontario Court of Appeal is set to hear Peter Nygard’s appeal of his sexual assault convictions and prison sentence today, with his lawyers arguing the Toronto trial judge made errors including admitting the testimony of an expert on trauma.

The former fashion mogul was convicted of four counts of sexual assault in 2023 and sentenced to 11 years behind bars after multiple women came forward with allegations dating from the 1980s until the mid-2000s.

His prison sentence amounts

CALGARY — Star Wars Day, on May 4th, is a psuedo holiday for fans like Kel Spoering — especially when she may be able to thank Star Wars for her existence.

“My father is an incredible Star Wars guy,” said Spoering. “He took my mother to the opening of ‘A New Hope,’ the very first Star Wars, as their first date; and mom somehow still married him,” she laughed.

Spoering, now 39, recalled her Star Wars origins from the Calgary