What happened to never going against the family? Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s mafia, have reportedly complained that mob recruits aren’t what they used to be, as nearly 150 people ...

CORLEONE, Italy, April 14, 2006 — -- Deep in the hills outside Palermo, Italy, is a medieval farm town with a history written in blood. The town's name -- Corleone -- literally means "Lionheart." ...

Italy’s mafia is turning away from violent turf wars to collaborate in drug trafficking, prostitution rings and money laundering, the national anti-mafia agency (DIA) said in an annual report about ...

Singer Daniele De Martino, from Sicily, has condemned ‘pentiti’ or turncoats in his lyrics - mafia gangsters who decide to cooperate with the authorities Italian pop singers who glamorise the bling ...

Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...

Italian financial police have seized assets worth €50 million from Emanuele Catania, a Sicilian businessman and key figure in the seafood trade in the region, Italian news outlet L'Indipendente ...

A bridge that would be the world’s longest suspension bridge was approved on Wednesday. The Strait of Messina Bridge would connect the island of Sicily to the mainland of Italy in a $15.5 billion ...

PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Police arrested the suspected new head of the Sicilian mafia and 45 other alleged gangsters on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the mob as it tried to rebuild after years of ...

ROME — Thousands of people marched in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest a government plan to build a bridge that would connect the Italian mainland with Sicily in a massive ...