Grizzled hair, a neat moustache, and elegantly dressed ... had already been surrounded by 100 more police to prevent him escaping their dragnet. The mafia boss, survivor of innumerable vendettas ...

A Mafia boss who spent nearly three decades evading law enforcement before he was arrested in January has died while receiving medical treatment, according to Italian media reports. Matteo Messina ...

Reputed by investigators to be one of the Mafia's most powerful bosses, Messina Denaro, 61, had been living while a fugitive in western Sicily, his stronghold, during at least much of his 30 years ...