Companies around the world reported IT issues on Friday, with planes grounded, trains disrupted, and TV and radio broadcasters taken offline.

Sky News reported that Berlin airport said it halted all flights until 1000 CET (0800 GMT), while major US airlines including American Airlines Group Inc, Delta Airlines and United Airlines Holdings Inc have been grounded due to technical faults. Passengers at Edinburgh airport were unable to use automated boarding pass scanners as monitors displayed a message saying ‘server offline’.

Meanwhile, Sky News itself has not been able to broadcast live TV, amid an outage seemingly affecting Windows PCs globally.

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Microsoft Corp said it was addressing a ‘lingering impact’ of its 365 applications and services that are in a ‘degraded state’.

Users on the subreddit for cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc reported issues in India, the US and New Zealand.

Separately, the regulatory news service of the London Stock Exchange was not updating on Friday morning. Calls to RNS for comment were not answered early Friday.

A statement on the LSEG website said: ‘RNS news service is currently experiencing a 3rd party global technical issue, preventing news from being published on www.londonstockexchange.com. Technical teams are working to restore the service. Other services across the Group, including London Stock Exchange continue to operate as normal.’

AFP reported that Australian companies were hit by a ‘large-scale technical outage’, the country’s top cyber-security authority said, with national broadcaster ABC reporting that its operations had been affected.

‘Our current information is this outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies,’ the office of Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said in a statement.

PA Media reported that UK’s biggest train company has warned passengers to expect disruption due to ‘widespread IT issues’.

Govia Thameslink Railway – parent company of Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern – issued an alert on the brands’ social media channels.

The message stated: ‘We are currently experiencing widespread IT issues across our entire network.

‘Our IT teams are actively investigating to determine the root cause of the problem.

‘We are unable to access driver diagrams at certain locations, leading to potential short-notice cancellations, particularly on the Thameslink and Great Northern networks.

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