The outfits and makeup worn on stage by competitors as young as eight at The World Irish Dancing Championships, currently being held in Dublin, have sparked criticism this week.

As tuxedoed waiters closed down the last cafés at 5:30 a.m., I accompanied an elderly Italian couple dressed ... which has become a symbol of Capri’s overcommercialization.

The music was the usual raucous Italian stew, mixed with screaming commercials ... soldiers who are now in the Brooklyn chapters of the Mafia. In my neighborhood, the Shamrock Boys became the ...

A senior figure in the Chinese underworld has been shot dead along with a companion in a mafia-style execution in Rome, in what police suspect is a spillover from a long-running turf war within ...

And unlike Italian mafia organisations, there is no tradition of informers who divulge information to the police in exchange for more lenient sentences. There are occasional raids by police but ...

A senior figure in the Chinese underworld has been shot dead along with a companion in a mafia-style execution in Rome, in what police suspect is a spillover from a long-running turf war within ...

The Sopranosis widely considered one of the best mob stories ever told, and rightly so. It's a sprawling saga that uses the ...

A policeman looks for answers beyond the obvious in this gripping drama, based on a novel by a former anti-mafia prosecutor. The city of Bari, the capital of Italy’s popular Puglia region, is a ...

US and Iranian delegations will gather in Rome Saturday for a second round of high-level talks on Tehran’s nuclear program amid tempered optimism about a diplomatic way forward.

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