Google restores services for 'vast majority' of users following global outage

Gmail and YouTube have returned but users are experiencing problems when signing into accounts for the video-sharing service.

Google said it was “aware of the problem” and that it had left the “majority” of users unable to access its services.

Update 12.45am: Many services including Gmail and YouTube are coming back online.

Google services are beginning to come back online, albeit in a somewhat limited capacity,