Sicilian Mafia 'Beast' Toto Riina dies

Former "boss of bosses" Toto Riina, one of the most feared Godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia, died early yesterday after battling cancer, the government said. Riina, who is thought to have ordered more than 150 murders died in the prisoners' wing of a hospital in Parma in northern Italy just before 4:00am.  Nicknamed "The Beast" because of his cruelty, Salvatore "Toto" Riina, 87, led a reign of terror for decades after taking control of the island's powerful organised crime group Cosa Nostra in the 1970s.