It was a monument, marking the exact spot where, on May 23, 1992, Giovanni Falcone, the leading anti-Mafia judge in Sicily, and his wife were blown up by 1,100 pounds of plastic explosives placed ...

A board game modelled on the mafia conflicts that raged in Sicily in the 1980s has sparked outrage in Italy.. The sister of Giovanni Falcone, an anti-mafia judge who was murdered, described the ...

The 58-year-old magistrate served as Falcone’s deputy between 1985 and 1989, before Falcone became a top assistant to Italy’s minister of justice in Rome. “Falcone was like Christopher Columbus.

All four of Sicily's airports, Catania–Fontanarossa (CTA), Comiso (CIY), Falcone–Borsellino (PMO), and Vincenzo Florio (TPS), remain fully operational and are continuing with flights as normal.

In May 1992, Falcone, a mentor of Principato, was murdered along with his wife on the highway outside Palermo. Some 135 kg of dynamite was used to blow up his car.

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Palermo’s airport is named Falcone-Borsellino. It sounds like a ‘70s American cop show, and you’d be forgiven ...

You can fly into Sicily via three airports, including Palermo Falcone-Borsellino Airport (PMO), Trapani Vincenzo Florio Airport (TPS) and Catania Vincenzo Bellini Airport (CTA).

He is the man Forza Italia is aiming for at the European Championships in the Sardinia-Sicily constituency. Marco Falcone, 53 years old, lawyer, is married to Patrizia and father of two children ...