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The Exporters Association of Crete said there was a 14.62% increase in exports in the first 10 months of 2012, bringing in 323,538,357 euros ($423 million.) ELSTAT, the Hellenic Statistical Authority noted the jump in interest in Cretan products...

It seems that Crete had its very own Santa Claus this year. Dimitris Apostolakis, a DHL courier employee, decided to gather food, clothing, toys and other necessities in his spare time and distribute them to the charitable foundation Minors'...

The 414 players at the Sept. 5 Cretan Mandolin Festival were given a Guinness World Record on Dec. 31, the last given for the year, almost four months after they gathered in Heraklion to make music together. According to the...

Cologne’s Thomas More Academy visited Crete in order to harvest olives and see up close the Cretan products. “This year we came along with 30 people from the region of Westphalia so as to harvest olives, and look closely at...

Greek officials said a Turkish ship, a corvette named Beykoz, entered Greek waters again, this time near Cape Sounion, not far from Athens' southern coastline. They said it sailed from the port of Izmir, entered Greek territorial waters between...

Struggling to get out from under a $430 billlion debt and crushing economic crisis, the answer to Greece's financial problems says the answer might be under the sea around Crete where the German Deutsche Bank said there could be...

Rob Hughes, 31, a British soccer player who was nearly killed in an attack by six fellow Britons in Greece four years ago is to return to Greece to testify in the case against the men he said assaulted...

The residents of Agia Varvara, Crete will put their forces together on Nov. 4 to make the a coleslaw salad to set a Guinness World Record. The Cultural Association of Agia Varvara initiated the idea in which local natural food...

Stylianos Papardelas, former student of Information Systems at the University of Crete, started as an amateur photographer in 2006 with his first DSLR camera. Soon he realized that photography was his calling, and got involved in the Hellenic Photographic...

Two earthquakes measuring 3.5 degrees on the Richter scale were registered early on Monday off the Greek island of Crete, reportedly causing no damage to people or things. The epicenter of the first tremor, which started at 1:15am local time...