Mafia bosses are ordering wannabe gangsters to learn the tricks of the trade by watching The Godfather movie. It comes after former mob boss Michael Franzese suggested The Godfather actually got ...

A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard's finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said. Giuseppe Fanara, 60, who is serving a life sentence ...

When anti-mafia police swooped on the Sicilian mob on Tuesday, their main aim was to stop them regrouping and creating a new governing body or cupola. But what has emerged from their wide-ranging ...

The Sicilian mafia is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – institutions in the Western world. After its first appearance in Sicily in the 1870s it soon infiltrated the economic and ...

Italy’s most wanted Mafia boss, Emanuele Gregorini has been arrested in Colombia. The kingpin, known as Dollarino, is regarded as a leading figure in the Italian mafia network in Lombardy, where the ...

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ROME, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Italian authorities launched a large-scale anti-mafia operation at dawn on Wednesday, targeting 181 alleged members of the notorious Sicilian crime syndicate, Cosa Nostra.