News Headlines - 17 May 2014

▽The ‘right to be forgotten’ explained - BT

Google has received scores of 'right to be forgotten' requests following a controversial European ruling - including one from an actor who had an affair with a teenager, it emerged today.
Another request was made by the child of a celebrity who has asked for articles about their criminal convictions to be taken down, it has been suggested.

▽Judge condemns council for 'unlawful detention' of pensioner moved to care home - Telegraph

A judge has issued a devestating criticism of social services chiefs over the “woefully inadequate” way they dealt with an elderly former magistrate who has severe dementia.

▽Defending Japan: Collective insecurity | The Economist

IN THE light of his ill-judged visits to a shrine commemorating, among others, Japanese war criminals, it is not surprising that Japan’s neighbours view Shinzo Abe’s plans to tinker at the edges of Japan’s long-standing pacifism with deep suspicion. Yet the proposals the Japanese prime minister unveiled this week, allowing Japan to come to the defence of its allies for the first time, move the country in the right direction. So long as they are accompanied by energetic diplomacy, they should make the region more, not less, secure.

▽Scientists condemned for political bias on climate change | The Times

Climate scientists who vilified a colleague for advising a think-tank are “blind to their own biases”, according to a former senior member of the UN’s climate change advisory body.

▽Arsene Wenger vows to stay at Arsenal after FA Cup win over Hull | Mail Online

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has vowed to stay at the club after seeing his Gunners side end their nine-year wait for silverware by beating Hull City in the FA Cup final