For almost a century, American filmmakers have glamorized the Mafia, depicting their ranks as so charismatic and quick-witted that you might want to invite them over for dinner. The Mafia’s glamorized ...

An Italian man is accused of spending years masquerading as his dead mother in order to collect her pension, only for ...

Don’t count out the Mafia. Tom Robbins gives a sobering appraisal of why the Italian-American gangsters are more than just pop-culture figures. But they’re also pretty potent pop-culture pricks. Gangs ...

All these years later, the “Goodfellas” spirit lives on — in a lineup of Italian wines as big, bold, and complex as the movie ...

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A Catholic priest was yesterday killed in a robbery in Nairobi’s Langata area. Father Giuseppe Bertaina, a Consolata missionary, was in his office when the thugs attacked him. Police said Bertaina, an ...

Italian police have foiled a plot to steal Enzo Ferrari’s body, according to a bizarre Reuters report. Apparently the would-be culprits' foolproof, not at all grappa-inspired plan was to pilfer the ...

"Someone told me nobody can outsmart history... F&!k history." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for an ambitious action comedy heist film from Italy titled Robbing Mussolini (in English), also ...