Roundup: Global technical outage sinks Australia's media outlets, airports, businesses in disarray

SYDNEY, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Major media groups, airports and businesses across Australia have borne the brunt as a global technical outage paralyzed their services on Friday.

Shortly after 3:00 p.m. local time, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) started a live blog, informing the public of "major IT outages at institutions across Australia and the world," with the media outlet's own computer systems a