News Headlines - 13 May 2014

▽EU court says Google must honour ‘right to be forgotten’ | euronews

The European Court of Justice upheld a complaint by a Spanish man that Google searches on his name threw up links to a newspaper article in 1998 about his home being repossessed... But it has been welcomed in Brussels, where back in 2012 the European Commission proposed a law giving people the ‘right to be forgotten’ on the Internet.

▽French journalist killed in Central African Republic | World

A French journalist has been killed in Central African Republic, the office of President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday, the first death of a Western reporter in the country since France sent troops there in December.
French soldiers found the body of freelance photojournalist Camille Lepage, 26, in a vehicle they had stopped that was being driven by "anti-balaka" militia fighters, Hollande's office said in a statement.

▽BBC News - Turkey coal mine explosion: Death toll soars

An explosion at a mine in western Turkey has left 157 workers dead and 75 injured, local officials say.
The blast, followed by a fire, occurred at a coal mine in the town of Soma in Manisa province.

▽Pfizer concedes AZ takeover means cuts to jobs and R&D - FT.com

Pfizer acknowledged that its proposed ￡63bn takeover of AstraZeneca will lead to job cuts and a fall in research and development spending, as expectations mounted that it will raise the informal offer for its UK-based rival.

▽Explorer says he found Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria

Back in 2003, Clifford, an underwater archaeological explorer, and his crew discovered a tantalizing shipwreck off the coast of Haiti. The wreck sat in exactly the spot where Clifford reckoned Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, had sunk on Christmas Day in 1492, less than three months after Columbus reached the New World for the first time.