ROME (Reuters) -Italian anti-Mafia author Roberto Saviano wept in court on Monday as judges upheld a conviction against a notorious mob boss who was found to have threatened him. Francesco Bidognetti, ...

In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history.

Next month, the doors of an Italian mob boss’s former home will open to the public, thanks in part to the Uffizi Gallery. Egidio “Brutus” Coppola had funneled part of his fortune as head of the ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, one of the most notorious crime figures of his time, has died in a Milan hospital at the age of 83, prison authorities said on Wednesday.

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 ...

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 ...

Uruguay's prisons chief resigned Tuesday in the wake of a sensational jailbreak by Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito that angered Rome, which was awaiting his extradition. The interior ministry said it ...

He played lots of mafia bosses during his five-decade career, including one in Ben Affleck’s ‘Live by Night.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Remo Girone, who starred as a mob boss on the classic Italian ...

Italian police have seized a top mafia boss in a daring dawn raid this morning. The Italian Carabinieriarrested mafia chief, Leonardo Gesualdo, 39, who was listed among the country's ...

An explosive device destroyed an Italian investigative journalist’s car outside his home Thursday night, pushing anti-mafia authorities to launch an investigation into what officials called a direct ...