KUWAIT: Persistent inflation and rising interest rates across the globe sent bond markets tumbling resulting in the biggest decline in the benchmark since at least 1990.

WASHINGTON: A conspiracy theorist urging Americans to burn voting machines, an anti-Muslim activist posting a photo with a gun, a retired general who called for a coup-Elon Musk’s Twitter has reinstated thousands of once-banned accounts.

LAS VEGAS: Armed with a smartphone in today’s ever more connected world, farmers can remotely monitor the health of their fields, the level of feed in their silos or even the aging of wine in barrels.

GENEVA: Pakistan’s prime minister on Monday asked the IMF for a pause in its demands for economic reforms before releasing more financial aid, as the country tries to rebuild after catastrophic floods.

KUWAIT: The GCC Exchanges Committee launched a unified optional package of standards for disclosure of governance and social and environmental responsibility for listed companies.

Kuwait: Zain, Kuwait’s leading digital service provider, joined Watheefti, the biggest career gathering in the nation.

LAS VEGAS: Getting shot, standing in a downpour, being surrounded by bees: None are ideal, but for gamers, feeling the sensations of each is the goal.

BEIJING: Jack Ma, the unconventional billionaire founder of tech giant Alibaba and the totem of China’s entrepreneurial brilliance, has stepped out of the limelight since a Communist Party crackdown that chopped back his empire.

WASHINGTON: The dominant US services sector contracted for the first time in more than two years in December, survey data showed on Friday, as business activity slumped.