I am standing in a narrow, rectangular room in one corner of the Arkadi Monastery in central Crete. The space is open to the elements, but you can see where the vaulted ceiling once began. At the far ...

One of the bloodiest events in modern Greek history took place at the historic Monastery of Arkadi in central Crete when rebels and almost a thousand men, women and children were hunkered down within ...

Crete is a myth-stical island (see what I did there?) in Greece where gods were born, empires came and went, and lunch can last longer than a Minoan dynasty. It’s an island that refuses to be reduced ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For half an hour or so, as we headed up the steepest part of Crete’s Rouvas Gorge, the canyon’s walls closed in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...