The lawyer for an alleged mob boss in southwest China was given a reduced 1 1/2-year prison term Tuesday during his appeal on charges that he helped his client falsely claim torture by police during interrogation, the court said. But the Beijing Evening ...

PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - The key witness in a Mafia trial in Sicily told a court Tuesday that a close ally of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had direct links with the former "Boss of Bosses" of the Cosa Nostra. Massimo Ciancimino, son of a convicted Mafia associate and former mayor of the Sicilian capital Palermo, told the court that jailed Mafia ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's mafia crime syndicates bucked the recession in 2009 to raise 'profits' by almost 8 percent with the financial crisis making companies and even the stock market even more vulnerable to cash-flush mobsters. "Mafia Inc. is reinforcing its position as the number one Italian company," said a report published on Wednesday by a body whose members bear ...

More than 1,000 Africans fled a southern Italian town over the weekend after a wave of violence against migrant farm workers as Pope Benedict XVI condemned the assaults on immigrants. An investigation was under way to establish whether local organised crime groups were involved in clashes that left 67 people injured in the Calabrian town of Rosarno -- 31 of ...