Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them.

The outage disrupted the digital lives of small-business owners, politicians, aid workers and others. But for some, it was a welcome reprieve.

Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook

When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices.

Opinion | Lebanon as We Once Knew It Is Gone

The standards by which “normal” or “acceptable” living conditions are measured have long been discarded.

An internet outage affects company websites in Australia and beyond.

Analysts said the glitch was caused by service disruptions at a hosting platform, Akamai, based in the United States.

A widespread internet outage affects major websites.

The sites of the British government, The New York Times and Twitter were among those that were briefly inaccessible for some users.