It has been five years since an earthquake hit the Italian city of L’Aquila leaving 309 people dead. In the aftermath one public official and six earthquake scientists were charged with multiple ...

The Italian judge who sentenced seven of the country's natural disasters experts to six years in jail for manslaughter in connection with statements they made before the L'Aquila earthquake of 2009 ...

When the Vatican announced Pope Francis would travel to L'Aquila in central Italy Aug. 28 to open a seven-centuries-old celebration of forgiveness, people on social media began speculating that the ...

On a sun-drenched autumn day in L'Aquila, Vincenzo Vittorini peered into the huge hole in the ground where his house once stood and recalled the night his wife and nine-year-old daughter were crushed ...

At least 90 people are believed dead and tens of thousands homeless after an earthquake hit L'Aquila and other towns in central Italy, rescuers say. About 1,500 people were injured and many people are ...

Church bells chimed 309 times at 3.32am yesterday as the central Italian town of L’Aquila recalled those killed in an earthquake there on April 6th, five years ago. Earlier, at the conclusion of a ...