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HE'S FILTHY rich, adores women and champagne, drives a Porsche and is crazy about video games. Meet Matteo Messina Denaro, 39, the ambitious young blood tipped as the new head [...]

HAVING FAILED in its attempts to bribe and bomb the Italian state out of existence, the Sicilian Mafia, the Cosa Nostra, is trying a new approach - negotiation. Clan bosses [...]

AT 65, Pupetta Maresca had lived a pretty full life. She had buried and avenged one Mafia husband, deserted another, served time for a murder she proudly admits and seen [...]

O JESU MIO! It was astonishing, one of those great upsets that make sport worth watching, but few Italians had the energy to celebrate with anything more vigorous than a [...]

ITALY'S PRIME Minister, Massimo D'Alema, who resigned at the weekend, could be back in the job today, as the country's leaders attempt to head off a prolonged political crisis. Mr [...]

ITALY'S PRIME Minister, Massimo D'Alema, who resigned at the weekend, could be back in the job today, as the country's leaders attempt to head off a prolonged political crisis. Mr [...]

For a man who has become known as Mr Italy, Giulio Andreotti is remarkably unlike the stereotype of the Italian politician. When weary commentators seek a fellow countryman with whom [...]

THE ITALIAN opposition yesterday intensified calls for the government to resign after the publication of a list of 260 alleged Soviet spies, including the leader of the Communists, one of [...]

A FORMER Communist party leader, a left-wing senator, a monk and dozens of journalists are reportedly among a list of more than 200 Italians identified by the KGB archivist Vasili [...]

With its black masses, illicit weddings, bribery and sexual impropriety, a kiss-and-tell expose of the Vatican has gripped all Italy and shocked Catholics everywhere. Until recently, the identity of its [...]

FOUR ITALIAN football fans were burnt to death when a fire broke out on a train transporting them home from a match. The blaze, thought to have been started deliberately, [...]

SICILIAN POLICE arrested one of Italy's few female Mafia bosses yesterday as she was having breakfast in her home town near Catania. Surprised in a friend's apartment, Concetta Scalisi, 45, [...]