he’s not the first in his family to be associated with the Italian mafia, as the Denaro family is a notorious Sicilian crime family and his father was also a mafia boss. According to the America ...

During the production of the movie masterpiece, director Francis Ford Coppola found himself entangled with real-life New York ...

Move into tax evasion and money laundering means organised crime has 'not diminished but evolved', warns prosecutor ...

Extortion rackets have gone out of fashion and murders are largely frowned upon by the godfathers. Just 17 people were killed ...

Stroll through the villa of a wealthy Roman family filled with well-preserved ... even described it as the highlight of their trip to Sicily. The villa is located in the center of Sicily with ...

Lori Jane Kearsey’s husband said he thought she left him; her family believed she joined the federal witness protection ...

Once a jewel of the Mediterranean, by the 1980s the Sicilian capital had become dilapidated and dangerous. Now, freed of the ...

Police target 142 suspects in mafia raid, Vatican Museums staff protest over treatment, 14 new beach destinations awarded ...

Corsica’s bloody history stretches back to the 19th century when it was dominated by clans and rules of vendetta, which compelled people to seek deadly revenge whenever family honour was insulted.

The president of Italy's northwest Liguria region and the ex-head of Genoa's port were among 10 arrested on Tuesday in a sweeping anti-corruption investigation which also targeted officials for ...

On our tour, we will learn more about the mafia’s bloody ... and a tour of the Alagna family winery in Marsala, we head to Agrigento, the hilltop city on Sicily’s south-west shore.

“When a dictatorship ends — when the mafia collapses ... It serves traditional Sicilian cuisine, using old family recipes and local ingredients, in a space filled with artisan ...