A woman in Sicily has been arrested after admitting killing her four-year-old daughter, having initially claimed the child was taken by hooded kidnappers for a ransom. The body of Elena Del Pozzo was found in a field close...

Sicily is, of course, Italy’s largest island. A sun-drenched Mediterranean land steeped in history, culture and unique local traditions. This is a place where Baroque architecture, art and culture intertwine with an abundance of outstanding...

 Maria Falcone, sister of anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni who was killed by a Cosa Nostra bomb 30 years ago Monday, said she would toast with Italian justice and interior ministers when fugitive superboss Matteo Messina...

 Thirty years after Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were murdered on the order of mob boss Salvatore “Toto” Riina (1930-2017), virtually every corner of the Sicilian capital holds reminders of the judges...

 The Sicilian regional government on Friday voted to permanently restore to Greece a fragment of the Parthenon that had been loaned to Athens in exchange for an ancient Greek statue of Athena which had come to a Palermo museum for four...

 For a century it was thought that an artificial lake in Motya, an ancient city on an island off the coast of Sicily, was a military harbour similar to one in the nearby Phoenician city of Carthage. But new analysis has revealed it was a...

  Nine people were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of corruption in the Sicilian public-transport sector. The heads of regional transport company AST were placed under...

 A 32-year-old Italian man was burned to death in a fire at his home at Noto in Sicily on Wednesday. Fire fighters were called by neighbours and found the man's charred body after putting out the blaze. The cause of the fire is not yet...

  An event dedicated to food has been organized to raise funds for the multiethnic restaurant Moltivolti in Palermo's Ballarò district, which was damaged by a fire on January 29. The event also has a political side...

 The five members of a Sicilian family who decided against getting the COVID jab have all died of the virus, in just over a month, sources said Friday. The victims are the...

  Italian police said Monday they had broken up a ring of businessmen accused of cheating the government out of 440 million euros in tax credits that were granted as part of government measures to help struggling businesses...

 Need a change of scenery? Airbnb is looking for an adventurer who wants to move to Sicily for a year - and you'll get to live there completely rent-free! The holiday rentals platform is offering up an opportunity to live...

 A 60-year-old Italian man was arrested Monday on suspicion of murdering a 22-year-old woman who went missing in Sicily on June 4, 2012. The man, Rosario Palermo, is the...

 Scala dei Turchi is a limestone cliff in southern Sicily. On Friday, in some places, I painted red iron oxide powder. The Public Prosecutor’s Office has already begun...