The news site Yahoo! News reports that the second global internet outage in a matter of weeks disrupted operations across multiple governments, banks and airlines including Southwest Airlines Co.

On June 8th, 2021 a huge number of websites and online services, including well-known businesses like Amazon couldn’t be reached and were rendered useless.

Britain recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, with the temperature exceeding 40C (104F) as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, forcing train tracks to buckle and fueling a spate of fires across London.

The news site marketscreener.com reports that the Bank of England has taken supervisory action against Euroclear UK and Ireland after technical issues triggered an outage last September of its CREST financial markets settlement system, which is critical in enabling stock or bond trades.