Financial Times, Guardian, New York Times websites down

Multiple websites operated by news outlets including the Finiancial Times, the New York Times and Bloomberg News were down across the globe on Tuesday.

Britain's Guardian newspaper said its website and app were being affected by a wider internet outage on Tuesday.

Separately, Amazon.com Inc's retail website also seemed to face an outage. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.

The issue affecting the sites was not immediately clear.