Police have seized £173m worth of assets hidden away by Italy’s “last godfather” in an international operation involving nine ...

General George S. Patton, one of the most revered, skilled and yet controversial figures in American military lore, reached the coastal city of Messina and secured the liberation of Sicily on this day ...

He lamented that it takes hours to go by train between Sicily’s major cities – Palermo, Catania, Messina – and that the island, like the rest of southern Italy, needs to make high-speed trains a top ...

Were you to swim the strait between the toe of Italy and the horn of Sicily you would come out of the water at Messina, which you could see from far off as it rises upward from the beaches, with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the heart of the down-at-heel city of Messina stands the Caronte & Tourist Ferry terminal, where cars, ...

Convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was captured ...

There is a popular saying in Italian – similar to how Anglophones use “when hell freezes over” – that translates as “I’ll do it when the bridge to Messina is finished.” The dream of a bridge ...

Soar over Messina, the Gateway to Sicily, perched on the northeastern tip of the island where the Tyrrhenian Sea meets the Ionian. The drone captures the majestic Messina Cathedral (Duomo) and its ...

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.