PALERMO, Italy — Here is a quick quiz for the opera aficionado. The biggest opera house in Italy is in Milan, Venice or Palermo? Yes, Milan’s La Scala may have more seats, and La Fenice in la Venezia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Carabinieri had been bugging senior godfathers in the criminal network - many of whom had just been released from prison - X ...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted Mafia boss who ordered some of the nation’s most heinous killings, was arrested Monday at a private clinic in Sicily after three ...

Palermo, June 4 - Some 100 flying squad officers on Thursday arrested 11 alleged members of the Sicilian mafia in the Noce district of Palermo, a longtime strategic hub for Cosa Nostra's economic ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, who was sentenced in absentia for the 1992 murders of two prosecutors and other crimes, was apprehended at a Sicilian hospital. By Jason Horowitz and Gaia Pianigiani ROME — Even ...

Host Bob Edwards talks with Leoluca Orlando, the former mayor of Palermo, Italy. During his time in office, Orlando fought the Mafia's hold on Sicily's capital, an effort that earned him the nickname ...

ROME — Italian police arrested 45 people Tuesday in an anti-Mafia crackdown in Sicily, including top mobsters who had allegedly been in contact with Bernardo Provenzano, the reputed No. 1 boss ...