Bus services resume around the country today after a 48 hour strike ended at midnight.

However drivers at Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus have warned that there could be five more days of work stoppages this month.

They walked off the job on Friday in a row over plans to privatise up to a tenth of all bus routes.

Management at the two transport companies are calling on unions to return to the talks table to try to reach a solution.

The bodies of about 50 people, including some foreign trekkers, have been recovered from an avalanche-hit area of Nepal.

The number of dead from last weekend's devastating earthquake has risen to 7,000, but aid agencies are still struggling to reach remote parts of the mountainous country.

Ertharin Cousin from the World Food Programme says helicopters are needed to distribute supplies.

A group of nearly 300 women and children who were rescued from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria have been taken to a refugee camp.

The Nigerian military says it's freed nearly seven hundred girls and women from the Islamic extremists in the last week.

More than a dozen insurgent camps have been destroyed.

Archbishop Eamonn Martin says politicians on both sides of the Marriage Referendum debate have a duty to take part in the conversation publicly.

The Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland intervened in the issue last night saying the church cannot support the amendment to the Constitution as it would place the union of two men, or two women, on a par with that between a husband and wife.

However he says Irish Bishops are not anti gay people and both sides of the debate deserve to be treated with respect.

The name of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby daughter could be announced by her parents today.

It's understood William and Kate will tell the Queen - before making it public.

The Cambridges are expected to remain at their Kensington Palace apartment for another day before they travel to their country retreat Anmer Hall in Norfolk.