WSJ website, NYSE ,United Airlines hit by technical glitches

NEW YORK: The front page of the Wall Street Journal's website, wsj.com, is back online after suffering from technical glitches. The page was afflicted for almost an hour, during which it showed an error message saying "Oops, 504! Something did not respond fast enough, that's all we know..."

Individual articles were, however, still accessible via their direct links. Ashley Huston, a spokeswoman for News Corp's Dow Jones, publisher of Journal, said she had no further updates. Earlier on Wednesday she said the site is working on getting back up as quickly as possible.

"WSJ.com is having technical difficulties.The full site will return shortly," the website said earlier.

Separately Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in all securities after a computer malfunction.

United Airlines Resumes After Shutdown

Also, United Airlines halted all US departures for about two hours after a computer-network fault. The carrier has since resumed flights. The shutdown affected only mainline jets that were still on the ground, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration.

The grounding ran from 8 am until almost 10 am New York time, snarling a busy travel period and spilling over into hundreds of tardy takeoffs later in the day.

At noon New York time, 444 United flights had been delayed, the most among US airlines, according to data tracker FlightAware.com. That was about 20 per cent of United's daily total. "I am more frustrated than anything," said Jay Mitchell, an executive-search consultant who was booked to fly to Houston from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.