BEST ITALIAN BEACHES - Cape St. Vito - Images

In one of the Best Italian Beaches, San Vito Lo Capo - Sicily, today will be 17 ° C. (62 ° F) and in the next week-end, you can swim.......

Big mafia bust on 'ousted' Palermo bosses - ANSA English - ANSA.it

Palermo, November 29 - Italian police made 36 arrests in Palermo Tuesday as they broke up Mafia clans who fled the city for the United States after a bloody war with their Corleone rivals in the 1980s but later secretly returned.

Italian islanders block harbor to prevent influx of migrants. March 29, 2011

Tension is rising in Italy over thousands of African migrants who've arrived on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in the past few weeks. Several local people have resorted to drastic action to prevent any more boats from landing in the tiny community.

Top US architect working on Italian bridge project

Officials of a project to build a bridge linking the Italian mainland to Sicily say the architect for New York's Ground Zero skyscraper is working on designs for a complex to be built on the Calabrian side of the span.

Pope to Sicilians fighting Mafia: do not fear

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday hailed as a hero a slain priest who dared to challenge the Mafia in its stronghold, and he encouraged Sicilians not to resign themselves to deep-rooted evil on an island where organized crime has held sway for centuries.

Mafia cash in on lucrative EU wind farm handouts - especially in Sicily

Attracted by the prospect of generous grants designed to boost the use of alternative energies, the so-called "eco Mafia" has begun fraudulently creaming off millions of euros from both the Italian government and the European Union. And nowhere has the industry's reputation beco …