Settimino Mineo, center, who allegedly took over as the Palermo head of Cosa Nostra, is escorted by Italian Carabinieri police after an anti Mafia operation which led the arrest of 46 people ...

Italian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, was captured in Sicily's capital, Palermo, on Monday. He is implicated in multiple murders and believed be the head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra ...

'Ndrangheta: Hunting members of the mafia that's bigger than La Cosa Nostra 01:41. Italian police said Thursday they have dismantled a 'Ndrangheta mafia ring dominating a large area of southern ...

It has been 33 years since anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was blown up by Cosa Nostra in front of his mother’s home in Palermo, Sicily. His death on July 19 1992 came 57 days after the murder ...

'Super mafia' fears as 'leading figures from Italy's three most powerful mobs' - 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra - are 'seen sharing a meal of wine and pasta together' ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, who is accused of being the leader of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia, was arrested while he was at a private hospital in the city of Palermo.

ROME — Italian police officers on Tuesday arrested 181 people believed to be affiliated with the Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian mafia is known, dealing what officials said was an “important blow ...

PALERMO, Sicily-- Close family members of the Sicilian Mafia's fugitive “boss of bosses” were arrested on Friday in one of most significant anti-crime operations in Sicily in years, police said.

The Cosa Nostra, Italian for "Our Thing", was once the most powerful of Italy's mafia organisations, with a criminal empire that stretched across the Atlantic to America.

The Cosa Nostra isn't exactly a bastion of women's rights. And yet, in a country that's never had a female president, prime minister or mayor of Rome, Giusy, 33, is the first woman to run one of ...

Italian auteur and Cannes veteran Marco Bellocchio, whose melodrama “Sweet Dreams” screened in Directors’ Fortnight, will make a high-profile film about Tommaso Buscetta, the first high ...