The Labour Party has launched its social media campaign for a YES vote in the Marriage Referendum.

The initiative using the hashtag - 'make-it-happen' encourages people to speak to their family and friends about voting in favour of the constitutional amendment.

The Tánaiste Joan Burton and the Minister for Communications Alex, will also be meeting with people over the age 70 in Dublin this afternoon, to discuss the importance older people voting YES.

It's feared the migrant crisis may worsen as smugglers take advantage of good weather conditions in the Mediterranean sea.

6 thousand people were rescued and 10 bodies were recovered by EU crews at the weekend.

Many of the migrants are desperate to flee Libya's civil war but drown en route to Europe.

Hundreds of thousands of families in Nepal are still sleeping outside amid fears of aftershocks from last week's massive earthquake.

This morning the bodies of around 100 trekkers and villagers were found in a remote village north of Katmandu.

Officials say the bodies were buried under snow and ice from an avalanche.

The home of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has been targeted by paint bombers.

Stormont's Deputy First Minister says his grandchildren were inside the property in Derry when it happened last night.

He's thanked his neighbours for all their help in the aftermath.

Two UN peacekeepers have been wounded by mortar bombs launched from Syria into the Golan Heights.

A military spokeswoman says the peacekeepers were taken for treatment to an Israeli hospital and that there are no details on their condition or nationality.

The bombs appeared to be stray fire from fighting in Syria.