WHEN Don Corleone’s daughter got married in the film, The Godfather, the guests kissed his hand and he dispensed favours because no Sicilian Mafia boss could refuse a request on the day of his daughter’s wedding.

SALVATORE Lo Piccolo, who magistrates believe is the Sicilian Mafia’s new “boss of bosses”, was arrested yesterday after nearly a quarter of a century on the run, police said.

ITALY’S most wanted man, the Mafia’s “boss of bosses” Bernardo Provenzano, has been arrested in Sicily after 43 years on the run.

Police in Sicily have arrested two suspected mobsters accused of plotting to murder a judge with a car bomb in an attack like the one that killed one of Italy’s most famous anti-Mafia prosecutors in 1992.

Italy was commemorating the victims of mob-related violence today, remembering hundreds of policemen, magistrates and citizens killed by the Mafia.

Mafia boss Salvatore Riina, once the reputed head of the Sicilian mob, has been transferred from a top-security prison to a hospital intensive care unit.