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Payment app PayPal experienced a brief outage worldwide on Thursday, it confirmed.

It said its cryptocurrency services and peer-to-peer payment app, Venmo, were among its services affected by the outage.

By a 6-3 vote, the conservative majority overturned the conviction of a former Indiana mayor who took a $13,000 payment from a truck dealership that had received $1.1 million in city contracts.

Prosecutors had also been seeking a restitution payment but the judge has not announced his decision on the matter.

It found this created a conflict of interest, and her failure to avoid or manage this situation "amounted to misconduct and-or mismanagement", adding this also meant the payment she received was an "unauthorised benefit" to her husband, who was a trustee at the time.