"Nitto" Santapaola was believed to have masterminded the murder of one of Italy's most famous anti-mafia prosecutors in 1992.

Cosa Nostra leader, who controlled most of eastern Sicily, dies while serving multiple life sentences for murder ...

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced the sister of Sicilian crime boss Matteo Messina Denaro to 14 years in prison for mafia association, Italian media reported. Rosalia Messina Denaro was arrested ...

When Zhang Dayong lay in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Rome after being shot six times, few suspected a link to Italy's storied textile hub of Prato. But a "hanger war" is raging in the city near ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of headquarters of the anti-mafia authority (DIA). Investigators have uncovered shell companies in Italy, France and ...

After years of court action and complaints, trademark office in Spain rules name is counter to ‘public order and morality’ ...

Joaquin Garcia, a former FBI agent, spent 24 years undercover infiltrating the Italian Mafia and Mexican cartels, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singer Daniele De Martino, from Sicily, has condemned ‘pentiti’ or turncoats in his lyrics - mafia gangsters who decide to ...

This is the moment a Mafia boss in charge of one of Italy’s most notorious crime families was arrested by armed police. Footage released by the Italian Ministry of Defence on Tuesday (7 October) shows ...

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government may crow about its recent high-profile mafia arrests, but experts on organised crime say the successes belie increasing mob infiltration in the country's ...