The death toll from the earthquake that hit central Italy has risen to 247, Italy's civil protection agency announced last night.

Vibrations linked to the devastating earthquake in Italy, in which at least 73 people died, were felt in Ireland.

At least 159 people are dead and hundreds more injured after an earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble.

Latest: Italy's civil protection agency has upgraded the provisional death toll from Italy's 6.1-strength earthquake to 73.

At least four people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Italy near Bologna, according to reports.

The pope visited Italy’s earthquake-ravaged region today offering words of comfort to the survivors and calling for the rebirth of the area.

School reopened in a blue tent city today in a symbolic return to normality for some of the youngest victims of Italy’s earthquake.

It was a scene that moved a nation: mourners clinging to one another and sobbing over neat rows of more than 200 coffins, some with tiny children’s caskets resting on top.

Grieving relatives today collapsed over flower-draped caskets of the victims of Italy’s worst earthquake in three decades as the nation joined in a day of mourning.

The death toll in the Italian quake has reached 279, including 20 children and teenagers today.

The death toll from this week’s major Italian earthquake today reached 275 after rescuers remove three bodies from a collapsed dormitory.

Madonna is coming to the aid of earthquake victims in central Italy.

Aftershocks from the earthquake that killed at least 260 people in central Italy sent new fears through the camps that sheltered thousands of survivors today.

The death toll in Italy’s earthquake has risen to 250, officials said today, as strong aftershocks caused further fear among residents sheltered in tent camps.

Relatives of the missing watched in agony today as rescuers dug by hand for survivors in the earthquake ravaged Italian city of L’Aquila.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi today announced that 207 people died in the powerful quake that devastated part of central Italy, and 15 more are missing.

A strong aftershock has hit the central Italian region where rescuers are searching for survivors of the country’s deadliest earthquake in nearly three decades.

An Italian researcher claimed today that he forecast the powerful earthquake which hit central Italy yesterday but was muzzled by authorities.

Rescuers worked frantically through the night in the central Italian city of L’Aquila searching for survivors of the earthquake that has killed 179 and injured more than 1,500.

Rescuers were continuing to sift through rubble today in the hope of finding more survivors of Italy’s deadliest earthquake in nearly three decades.

At least 90 people were killed and 1,500 wounded in an earthquake that rocked central Italy today, officials said.

A powerful earthquake struck central Italy this morning, killing at least 20 people, collapsing buildings and leaving thousands of people homeless, officials and news reports said.

Six people, including four children, were killed today as a magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck central Italy, reports said.