Crete

The details of the 64-year-old retired teacher from Heraklion, Crete, who was arrested for raping six children between 1986 and 2010, the youngest being a boy who is now 19 and was then just 5 years old, have been released.

Greece has recovered the body of a woman and rescued 15 migrants from the sea after their boat capsized off the island of Kos in the eastern Aegean Sea on Friday, its coastguard said.

In a separate incident on Friday, the coastguard rescued 78 migrants from a wooden boat sailing some 23 nautical miles off the tiny island of Gavdos in Greece's south.

Two children, who were infected with salmonella, are being treated at the Children’s ICU of the University General Hospital of Heraklion.

According to Radio Crete, the supervisor of Public Health of the Region of Crete, Antonis Papadakis said the first case involves an infant just 5 months old and the other a 10-year-old child.

For over a century, Iordanis has made one of the most famous and distinctive Greek custard pies, with crunchy, handmade phyllo dough, mizithra cheese, and a sprinkle of crystal sugar.

A bus driver went viral as he took his intention to keep his bus clean to “another level”. As seen in a video taken in Elafonisi, in Crete, by a tourist, the driver in question is “dusting off” one by one the passengers about to sit in the vehicle.

The island of Crete has occupied the top place in the list of Greek regions with the highest suicide rates for the last 25 years, according to an expert.

A 27-year-old woman from Chania, Crete, told police she had been conned out of 150,000 euros by a man who claimed to be an investor and convinced her to invest in cryptocurrency.

The incident dates from March 2022 when the conman convinced her to pay him the sum in three instalments. By January, the victim had realised that the "investor" had disappeared with her savings.

A man who skinned two stray puppies, removed their nails and hung them last August in Hania on the island of Crete was arrested on Wednesday after he was identified by police forensics teams via DNA testing.

It was the first time police had used DNA analysis to track down a suspect connected with animal cruelty.

The identity and photos of a 37-year-old man from Hania on the island of Crete who is accused of sexually molesting minors were made public Thursday by the Hellenic Police (ELAS) in accordance with a prosecutor's order.

About 50,000 tourists are stranded in Greece, mainly on islands, as a result of British travel firm Thomas Cook's collapse, a Greek tourism ministry official told Reuters on Monday.

The tourists, mainly British, were vacationing in the islands of Zakynthos, Kos, Corfu, Skiathos and Crete, the official said.