Mafia Boss Who Was Italy’s Top Fugitive Arrested in Sicily
Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, after 30 years on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.
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Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested
Alleged to be a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia, Denaro had been on run for 30 years and was arrested in PalermoMatteo Messina Denaro, the last “godfather” of the Sicilian mafia and one of the world’s most-wanted criminals, has been arrested in Pale…
Prada charts course between useful and zany at Milan fashion week
Fashion label has taken items you might already own – a white vest, a backpack – to its menswear showNo one comes to Milan fashion week for its “useful clothes”. Yet this was the verdict of the director Luca Guadagnino, who sat in the front row on Sund…
Hunting for Truffles Is a Perilous Pursuit, Especially for the Dogs Who Dig
Truffles are big business, and some are trying to take out the competition by poisoning the dogs that accompany those known as “truffle hunters.”
US-born princess vows to stay in Rome villa despite eviction order
Saga continues over property housing Caravaggio’s only ceiling fresco as fifth auction fails to attract bidsA princess living in a villa in Rome that contains the only ceiling fresco ever painted by Caravaggio has said she would “vigorously defend” her…
Anger brewing in Italy over Ireland’s plans for alcohol health warnings
Critics in Italy – a key exporter of wine – say ‘terrifying’ warnings are ‘direct attack’ against the countryA plan by Ireland to put stark health warnings on bottles of wine, beer and spirits has caused anger in Italy.Ireland is free to go ahead with …
‘Astonishing’ Pompeii home of men freed from slavery reopens to public
House of the Vettii features ornate and erotic friezes – and a fresco of the god Priapus with a huge phallusAn ornate house – containing a fresco featuring a huge phallus – that was owned by two freed men freed from slavery in the ancient city of Pompe…
Vatican reopens investigation into teenager who went missing in 1983
Emanuela Orlandi case has triggered several theories but never yielded any concrete answersThe Vatican has reopened an investigation into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a case that has gripped Italy for almost 40 years and embroiled the powerfu…
‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
Research finds secret of durability of buildings such as the Pantheon could be in the techniques used at the timeThey have stood through the fall of an empire, the carnage of great wars and the foundation of a new country. But quite why structures made…
Hanif Kureishi says he may never be able to walk or hold pen again after fall in Rome
Novelist and screenwriter says he is unable to move arms and legs and has undergone spinal surgeryThe novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi has said he may never be able to walk or use a pen again after a fall on Boxing Day in Rome.The Buddha of Sur…