1.   The Ecstasy trade is apparently not the sole province of the Italian mob.

2.   The Italian mob also enters the game.

3.   A top Italian mob leader, on the run for almost a decade, has been arrested outside Buenos Aires, police said.

4.   Aided by investigators from southern Italy, police in Tirana, Albania, Tuesday arrested a top Italian mob boss, Italian police officials said here.

5.   An Athens court on Thursday acquitted a suspected Italian mob kingpin of charges of moral complicity in an attempted homicide and in causing an explosion two years ago.

6.   Authorities on Friday arrested an alleged Italian mob kingpin accused of directing a cigarette smuggling empire across southeastern Europe.

7.   Fugitive Italian mob boss Pasquale Cuntrera was captured Sunday in a village in southern Spain, Italian Interior Minister Giorgio Napolitano announced.

8.   Italian officials also are investigating alleged Chinese-run drug trafficking, prostitution and extortion rings that copy but do not yet challenge the Italian mob.

9.   The southern Italian mob had their man in Montenegro.

10.   Unlike the Italian mob, which is often run like a corporation, Russians might hook up for a scam or two then separate.