Police in Italy on Wednesday arrested an alleged top Mafia boss hiding in an underground bunker below his home in a small town near Naples, according to police and the Interior Ministry.
Unbeaten Juventus returned to the top of Italy's Serie A with a 1-0 win at third-placed Lazio on Saturday.
Real Madrid made it five wins from five in Group D of the Champions League on Tuesday with a 6-2 rout of Dinamo Zagreb in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
Napoli stunned Manchester City 2-1 Tuesday to leave the English Premier League leaders struggling to qualify from Group A of the European Champions League.
Prosecutors in Italy allege that a businessman supplied Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with about 30 women, or escorts, in order to win favor with him.
Six people died after a fire erupted Monday at a family-owned fireworks factory in central Italy, authorities said.
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Italian politician Nicole Minetti tells CNN's Dan Rivers about the woman at the center of the Berlusconi scandal.
A businessman and his wife were arrested on charges of blackmailing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italian police said Thursday.
As Napoleon Bonaparte expanded his new French Empire and conquered much of Western Europe, he doled out the spoils of war to his friends and family, whether they wanted it or not.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition has suffered a major defeat in local elections in Milan and Naples, with voters backing left-wing candidates in both cities.
As NATO prepares to take over the Libya mission, alliance officials said Friday they are considering a broader role that goes beyond enforcement of a no-fly zone.
VBS tags along with musicians who are rock stars in Naples but virtually unknown outside of it. Go to VBS.TV for more.
Ask any Italian what pops into their head when they think of Naples, and you'll almost assuredly get the same three things every time: pizza, garbage in the streets and the most powerful international crime syndicate in the world -- the Camorra.
Fugitive Italian mobster Antonio Iovine has been arrested in the country's south, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Thursday.
The film mogul "was my biggest champion in life and a constant source for wisdom," says granddaughter Giada De Laurentiis
Three men were arrested for assaulting officers in Naples, Italy, police said Monday, but the city remained mostly calm after weekend protests.
The Italian government said it would halt the construction of a controversial landfill near Naples, but the assurance was not enough for protesters who clashed with police Saturday night, injuring six police officers.
At least 20 police in southern Italy were hurt in clashes with protesters angry over the planned opening of a controversial landfill, authorities said Friday.
Police arrested 12 people in the south of France Tuesday for having links to terrorist networks, French national police said.
France has requested the extradition of an al Qaeda suspect arrested in Italy, a French court official said Monday.
Italian police detained an Algerian national suspected of being a member of al Qaeda, they told CNN Sunday.
A train derailed outside of Naples, Italy, Friday, killing one person and leaving about 40 injured, a railroad service spokesman said.
A young married couple wrapped in an embrace were among three people found dead after an apartment building collapsed in southern Italy Friday night, an Italian rescue official said.
"My family comes from San Fele, in southern Italy, and growing up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, my house was always filled with relatives from the old country --sleeping in chairs, eating, and drinking my uncle's homemade red wine.
Recently, VBS headed to Naples, the capital of the Campania region in southern Italy, to shoot two documentaries about the Camorra, the most powerful but least understood of the Italian crime cartels.
VBS looks at the cause and effect of years of pollution near Naples. Go to VBS.TV for more. Viewer discretion advised.
9-year-old Johnny Di Palma has been making pizza since the age of four.
No pizza maestro worth his sauce will reveal his secrets.
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