Manolis Bikakis, a 20-year-old Cretan paratrooper, single-handedly halted a Turkish advance during the 1974 Cyprus invasion.

Chania is set to be transformed into the set of a major motion picture inspired by Nikos Kazantzakis novel, Christ is ...

The best time to visit Crete is from mid-May to June or from September to October. May brings with it warmer waters and beautiful wildflowers that can be spotted throughout the island's natural ...

Pictures and video show a huge fire has broken out at a scrap metal site – with plumes of smoke billowing across the sky. Footage was captured at about 6.30am this morning, at what is believed to be ...

This is the shocking moment a British holidaymaker forced a plane to divert to Crete after shoving an air stewardess and screaming at fellow passengers. Witnesses have described how the 38-year-old ...

A passenger jet to Egypt was forced to make an emergency landing in Crete after a British woman 'turned the flight upside down' with her drunken behaviour. The 38-year-old passenger, who was ...

The drones emerged over the last two days and seem to be high-level, large UAVs that can fly for many hours at a time. They appear to be circling over areas near the flotilla, and they seem to be ...

Activists taking part in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza said Wednesday that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece. The Global ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A lake-front property in rural Lancaster County, near Crete, could be the future home of Still Waters Recovery Sanctuary, a treatment center for substance abuse disorders. The ...

A man has been charged with murdering a British man who disappeared on holiday in Greece 20 years ago. Steven Cook, from Sandbach in Cheshire, was 20 and on his first trip abroad without his parents ...

CRETE TOWNSHIP, Ill. (WLS) -- One man is dead, a woman critically injured in a shooting in south suburban Crete Township Tuesday, the Will County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies found a black car with ...