Pop queen Madonna is to become the new flower of Scotland, it emerged today. A heather is being cultivated for the star and her husband, Guy Ritchie, as a second wedding anniversary gift.

A music student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow is helping to show that the bagpipes are more than "just a traditional instrument". Anna Smart, 24, who is originally from Fife ...

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden The air was thick with both anticipation and a pungent smell as visitors flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden last weekend for a chance to see a rare flower bloom.

Scotland has been battered by wind gusts reaching ... Video by Morgan Spence Meet the bagpiper helping to show that the bagpipes are more than "just a traditional instrument".

Putricia the big stinky corpse flower which bloomed at the botanic gardens in Sydney on Thursday has been visited by almost 20,000 people. Almost a million more have followed the plant's journey ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an odour likened to rotting flesh and delighting ...

A giant foul-smelling flower that has become an unlikely internet darling has finally begun to bloom - and its rotting flesh-like odour has not been enough to deter its many fans. The corpse ...