News Headlines - 15 July 2012

▽Bus Blast In Syria As Civil War Declared

News of the explosion followed confirmation by the Red Cross (ICRC) that it now considers the Syrian conflict to be a full-blown civil war, meaning international humanitarian law applies throughout the country.

▽ETA terror suspect Benat Atorrasagasti Ordonez arrested in Edinburgh | Metro.co.uk

The 36-year-old is alleged to be a member of the Basque separatist group ETA and escaped from Spanish authorities in 2001. He was detained during a raid by Lothian and Borders Police on a property in the Leith area of the Scottish capital on Friday night.

▽Sage Stallone death likely an accident since no suicide note found at scene: police - NY Daily News

Lawyer says Sylvester Stallone’s son was going to get married in Las Vegas this weekend. Also claims reports his dead body went undiscovered for days is not true, and that photos posted to Facebook incidate he was alive 17 hours before body was found.

▽AFP: French president's companion regrets tweet

French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler has said she will now think twice before tweeting, a month after she used the microblogging site to undermine her rival, the president's former partner. Trierweiler sent out a tweet wishing good luck to an opponent of Segolene Royal -- Francois Hollande's ex-partner and mother of their four children -- in last month's legislative election.

▽Huge Solar Flare Erupts From Giant Sunspot | Space.com

The sun unleashed a huge flare Thursday (July 12), the second major solar storm to erupt from our star in less than a week.