The Times today: L’AQUILA, Italy — Italy held a state funeral Friday for the victims of the country’s worst earthquake in three decades, as weeping relatives and officials assembled in a vast outdoor parade ground to mourn the 289 killed by the quake on Monday.

The photos, with the story, are heartbreaking.

The Times reports: New York Italian-Americans move to aid quakes victims: “There are few forces that so swiftly and surely reaffirm such immigrant ties as a natural disaster, and Monday’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake, which killed as many as 150 and left tens of thousands homeless, was no different.

MORE: ABC News offers a sad timeline of Italy’s earthquakes, the worst of which struck Reggio Calabria and Messina, Sicily on Dec. 28, 1908. The video here, at this Euronews site, is sad and shocking.