World's Biggest Flower Stinks Up Sydney
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SYDNEY, Australia - With the aroma of "overripe Camembert cheese on a bed of roadkill" a rare example of the world's largest flower burst into bloom Thursday in a Sydney hothouse.    Visitors to Sydney's Botanical Gardens have described the scent of the Titan Arum, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, as like a room full of smelly socks, fish rotting, wet carpet, or a rotten banana...
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It could be magic for some, but the use of loud Barry Manilow music to drive away late-night revelers from a suburban Sydney park is getting on the nerves of nearby residents.
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Light winds on Thursday threaten Ellen MacArthur's round-the-world record  challenge.
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Australia's largest city, Sydney, geared up Monday for its biggest night of the year, with around one million revellers expected to turn out for its harbourside fireworks spectacular.
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Sydney is set to be the first city to hold a Live Earth concert, a global event highlighting climate change.
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ANGRY soccer fans missed most of Harry Kewell&#39;s rare Sydney performance on Tuesday because of long queues to buy and collect tickets.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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Botanists on Thursday announced they had identified a new species of palm that is so enormous it can be spotted from space and whose bizarre life cycle requires the plant to kill itself after it has flowered.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Have you ever visited New York on a hot day and seen that haze that appears to hover at the end the street? Is it diesel exhaust? The Con Ed plant? A Korean barbecue?
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Kew Gardens says human-induced warming is damaging plant life and calls for emissions cuts.
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The seemingly endless battle over mp3s and filesharing wages on as the largest copyright infringement case in Australian history began yesterday (November 29) in Sydney.
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MELBOURNE -- It was a sickening sound to 20 million pairs of Australian ears -- a "thwack!" that was heard from Sydney to Perth, the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania at 9:49 last night in Rod Laver Arena.
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World No. 3 and Australia&#39;s top tennis player Lleyton Hewitt on Thursday criticized the court surface of Melbourne Park, where the Australian Open will be held between Jan. 17-30, 2005.
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The murder of a young boy whose body was stuffed in a suitcase and thrown into a lake in a Sydney park has shocked Australia's biggest city.
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INDIAN takeaway ordered from a British restaurant by Barmy Army fans in Australia will be destroyed when it arrives by plane.Comment
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A fire at an Iraqi sulphur plant has caused the largest man-made release of sulphur ever recorded, scientists say.