On Thursday, thousands of enthusiasts came to a greenhouse in Sydney, Australia, to admire the bloom of an endangered tropical plant. The Amorphophallus titanum, nicknamed "Putricia" by its fans, ...

What flower has been likened to "3-day-old road-kill," "rotting flesh," and "fish gone bad"? The answer is the corpse flower. The corpse flower (titan arum), native to the equatorial forests of ...

Top Rank chairman and premier boxing promoter Bob Arum has fond memories of the Philippines which he remembers with affection some thirty years after the Muhammad Ali - Joe Frazier "Thrilla in Manila" ...