News Headlines - 15 January 2012

▽Rhodri Giggs: My brother Ryan is a worm - The Sun
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4060196/Rhodri-Giggs-My-brother-Ryan-is-a-worm.html
RYAN Giggs' betrayed brother Rhodri last night opened his heart to The Sun and declared: "The man is nothing but a worm."

Fergie: Scholes is one of the best - The Press Association
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gHSy99TIq7hhcEyuBHVfqAYcg0LQ?docId=N0987121326565183934A
A week after his shock retirement U-turn, Scholes scored his first Barclays Premier League goal since August 2010 and his first goal at Old Trafford for almost two years when he turned home Wayne Rooney's cross-shot in first-half stoppage time.

▽English voters keener on independence for Scotland than Scots - Metro
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/887402-english-voters-keener-on-independence-for-scotland-than-scots
English voters are stronger supporters of Scottish independence than those north of the border, according to a new opinion poll.

▽Three dead, 40 missing in Italian ship disaster - Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/15/uk-italy-ship-idUKTRE80D08620120115
Italian rescue workers were searching for about 40 people still missing early Sunday, more than a day after a cruise ship with more than 4,000 on board capsized off Italy's west coast, killing at least three people and injuring 70.

▽Fear of Civil War Mounts in Syria as Crisis Deepens - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/middleeast/syria-in-deep-crisis-may-be-slipping-out-of-control.html
he failure of an Arab League mission to stanch violence in Syria, an international community with little leverage and a government as defiant as its opposition is in disarray have left Syria descending into a protracted, chaotic and perhaps unnegotiable conflict.