My MSN UK news homepage has come up with the page from March 24th.
I recognise last week's stories.
And my MSN.com (USA) homepage is for yesterday (27th).

tinternet? it's like the internet, but more colourful?

dunno the deal with the UK site, but i think time difference explains the "problem" with the US site.

I've been puzzled by erratic behaviour on the beeb iPlayer website. Possibly this is an issue with the iPlayer itself or alternatively I am being served a 'cached' copy of the website. Having ruled out my PC being the problem by clearing the local cache the possibility remains that any one of the worldwide servers en route could be erroneously dishing up pages from a cached version of the website.

perhaps a server inside GFW.

It's one of those topics where it would be easy to jump to conclusions and be completely wrong. A good thing to watch out for though.

My US hotmail account, when I close it no longer goes to MSN.com in the USA. It defaults to China.

My question answered.

I assume that in a day or so my UK hotmail account will also default to .cn

Bummer