L'aquila, Italy News

L'AQUILA, Italy - On a recent autumn afternoon, half a year after a devastating earthquake struck here, a small flock of sheep and goats made its way through the ghostly, ravaged center of this ancient hilltop city.

The region had been shaken since 2008 October by seismic activity that culminated in two foreshocks with Mw> 4, 1 week and a few hours before the main shock.

Jacques Diouf, director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, expressed regret about the outcome of a food security summit in Rome Nov.18, 2009.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry what he called his neocolonialist foes.

A United Nations summit on food security vowed in a final declaration on Monday to take "urgent action" to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people around the world.

Pope Benedict XVI decried the worsening plight of the world's 1 billion hungry on Monday as a United Nations food summit rallied around a strategy of more help to farmers in poor nations but rebuffed a U.N. appeal to commit billions to the plan.

The Italian Civil Protection Department and the World Bank are using experience gained from the response to a deadly earthquake in Italy earlier this year in efforts they said they hope will help other countries prepare for natural disasters.

A Mw 6.3 earthquake struck the city of L'Aquila, Italy on April 6, 2009, causing hundreds of deaths and vast damage.

Cutting Edge - The Courier's science page. Today, Dr Pauline Balac, senior biology lecturer at Huddersfield University Now the clocks have gone back and winter is on its way, it makes some of us feel like sitting in front of the fire or TV, drinking tea and eating chocolate.

Seven months after the terrible earthquake that hit Italy's Abruzzo region on April 6, children from San Giacomo, a small town in L'Aquila, are still reeling from its impact.

A representative of the township's Italian-American community will travel to L'Aquila, Italy, next week to present a donation to earthquake victims there.

E-mail: claudiop@marshall.edu Received 16 March 2009; Accepted 7 October 2009; Published online 3 November 2009.

When fractured bones fail to heal, a serious complication referred to as "nonunion" can develop.

Protesters clash with riot police during a demonstration against the expansion of a U.S. military base in the northern Italian city of Vicenza on Saturday.

A man views a Facebook webpage for a chat group called - Uccidiamo Berlusconi' in Rome .

Export Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , Vol. 95, No. 4. , pp. 1469-1481. nilsma Abstract Recent accelerometric recordings of earthquakes with moderate and intermediate magnitude , at both local and regional distances, show a significant ground-motion amplification effect at low frequencies in the city of L'Aquila . The effect ...

One thing about Joe Jackson: He sure is busy cashing in on his superstar son's death.

Silvio Berlusconi, the embattled Italian Prime Minister, has been warned to avoid "spontaneous" public walkabouts after alleged death threats.

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Rome - Prosecutors said on Monday they have placed 12 people under investigation over the collapse of a university dormitory that came to symbolise the shoddy construction blamed for so many deaths in Italy's April 6 earthquake.