Many of the European Apple Stores are down

[spedney]

But it's not the "normal" one with "back soon"... it just says "file not found".
UK, France and Germany are all up still but most of the other European ones are down...

 

[Jaffa Cake]

At this time on an evening I'd imagine it's simply for maintenance or some such, and not to launch some exciting new thing on an unsuspecting world...

 

[rdowns]

Maybe it's a tumor.