Kos

Three Greek islands and four hotels were rated among the best in the world, after 300,000 readers of leading travel magazine “Conde Nast Traveller” had their say in the annual “2016 Readers’ Choice Award”, the results of which became public Tuesday.

An undated handout photograph made available by Britain's South Yorkshire Police Monday showing a pair of sandals, they have had specially made, and which they believe resemble the pair British toddler Ben Needham was wearing when he disappeared on 24 July 1991, near the village of Iraklise, on the island of Kos, Greece.

Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader/Defence Minister Panos Kammenos was restricted from landing on the island of Kos where dozens of people are protesting at different parts of the island against the refugee crisis. But, he finally managed to land on a different location away from the protesters and despite the reactions of the residents.

“Chaos” is the word to describe the situation on the island of Kos with images of violence between undocumented migrants and the outnumbered Greek police doing the rounds on the international media.

The Greek government decided to deploy 2 teams of 250 Special Police forces to the island of Kos via C-130 airplanes, in an effort to provide reinforcements to the local police precinct and defuse the situation. The atmosphere remains tense following an incident where a Greek police officer slapped a migrant while he was waiting in line.

Hundreds of protesting migrants demanding quick registration began blocking the main coastal road in the island’s main town, staging a

South Yorkshire police said that the appeal made by Ben Needham’s mother on a three-hour Greek TV show – “Light at the End of the Tunnel” – resulted in a number of calls concerning the disappearance of little Ben 24 years ago while on holiday on the island of Kos, Greece. One of the leads concern the claim by a man who believes that it could be him and who is willing to undergo DNA tests.

By Stathis Kousounis

Athens and Hania (pictured) are the first choices among foreign holidaymakers heading to Greece next week for Catholic and Protestant Easter, according to international online travel search engine Trivago.

The data collected concerns searches for holidays in Greece between April 2 and 5.