Government, international media websites down

The websites of the White House, the British government and international media were hit by global outages on Tuesday.

Some social media platforms' websites were also affected, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.

Messages such as “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” appeared on the websites of CNN, the Financial Times, The Guardian and France's Le Monde newspaper.

The White House website had an error message but was available again later.