An Italian woman plunged to her death from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in an apparent suicide as tourists watched in horror, police said.

An aftershock rocked San Giuliano di Puglia today less than two weeks after a strong tremor toppled a school in the Italian village and killed 26 children inside.

Authorities in Italy working through seismic aftershocks today made final preparations for a mass funeral for 29 victims of Thursday's earthquake.

Prosecutors arrived in abandoned San Giuliano di Puglia today to start an investigation into whether anyone was to blame for the deaths of 26 children buried under their school in an earthquake.

Fifty children were trapped when a kindergarten collapsed after an earthquake shook central and southern Italy today.