Thousands of people have been evacuated from homes and tourist resorts in Crete as a wildfire tears through forests on the Greek holiday island. The Greek fire department said that more than 230 ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters were struggling Thursday to bring a major wildfire on Greece's southern island of Crete under control, hampered by gale force winds whipping up the flames. Thousands ...

Firefighters battling Crete wildfire for a third day Thousands of tourists returning to their hotels Europe sweltering in early summer heatwave Twenty cities in Italy placed on heat red alert ATHENS, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The town Sitia on the island of Crete. An earthquake struck near the island of Kasos near eastern Crete on Wednesday (Getty/iStock ...

Funeral held for Leslie “Les” Cook, the last surviving ANZAC of the Battle of Crete, as Greece honours his legacy ...

A manhunt is underway after two people were shot dead and six injured at a village on the Greek island of Crete. Men armed with AK-47 rifles and shotguns opened fire in an incident said to have been ...

Athens-based editor Katie Silcox has narrowed down this list of 15 places everyone should visit in Greece in their lifetime, ...