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 ...

Speaking to the BBC before the French transport minister confirmed the WW2 bomb had been defused, Lejeune says they thought it was the "better option" to cancel all 32 services between London and ...

The No.1 strip of sand in the world for this year has been declared as Elafonissi Beach on the Greek island of Crete, which climbs 23 places to secure the top spot. The rest of the global top five ...

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran ...

"There are reports of hidden treasures and secret military experiments. After WW2, the red army occupied the peninsula and used it as a military base until 1993." The island was transformed into a ...

Here are six mistakes you can spot in WW2 movies. Outright theft! The British captured the first Enigma cipher machine, not the Americans as in U-571 U-571, starring Matthew McConaughey and Harvey ...

A new account of the kidnap of a German general in WW2 from occupied Crete sheds light on one of the 20th Century's most interesting men. "One man in his time plays many parts," wrote Shakespeare ...