Italian players suspended for mourning mafia boss
Sixteen players from Italian amateur side San Luca have been suspended for two matches for wearing black armbands at a match in November in mourning at the death of a Calabrian Mafia boss.

Police officer Ashish Shirodkar held for drug nexus
A suspended police inspector in Goa was Thursday arrested for his alleged nexus with an Israeli drug peddler.

BJP alleges cover-up in Goa police-drug mafia nexus probe
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday alleged a massive cover-up in the investigations by the Crime Branch (CB) in the police-narcotics mafia nexus in Goa.

Netanyahu voices regret in settlement row with US
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced regret on Sunday for the announcement of a Jewish settlement plan that has strained ties with Washington and threatens the revival of Middle East peace talks.

Italian PM `asked mafia godfather for protection`
Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi once met a mafia godfather to ask for his family`s protection, according to testimony collected by crime prosecutors.

`Pak oil mafia siphoned Rs 90 bn annually during Mush regime`
Pakistan`s oil mafia is alleged to have siphoned Rs 90 billion annually during former president Pervez Musharraf`s tenure by supplying substandard diesel at the rates of high quality premium variety, a media report said.

Goa Police quizzed on nexus with drug mafia
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has contacted the Goa Police over the alleged involvement of some of its officers with the narcotics mafia, state Chief Secretary Sanjeev Srivastava said Friday.

‘Aafia Siddiqi visited her uncle in Islamabad to meet Taliban’
The uncle of terrorism-accused Pakistani national, Dr Aafia Siddiqi, has told a New York jury that the neuroscientist visited him in Islamabad in January 2008, asking him to help her to reach the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Taliban car bomb kills 15 in Pakistan`s Lahore
A suicide car bomber destroyed offices used to interrogate suspected militants in Lahore on Monday, killing 15 people in the latest bloody attack on Pakistan`s cultural capital.

Goa police hand-in-glove with organised sex mafia: Official
A senior Goa police intelligence official has publicly admitted that the state is emerging as a den for the organized sex mafia and the local police are often hand-in-glove with the criminals.