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Page last updated at 08:38 GMT, Monday, 6 April 2009 09:38 UK

Powerful Italian quake kills many

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The desperate search for survivors continues around the Italian city of L'Aquila after an earthquake killed nearly 200 people.

Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless.

Duncan Kennedy reports.

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