RICK RYCROFT

People view an endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink, which is about to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney. It is the first time a corpse flower has bloomed at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden in 15 years.
 
Papua New Guinea's sidelined Petroleum Minister Jimmy Maladina, center, leaves Waverley Local Court House in Sydney, Thursday, July 11, 2024. The 58-year-old Maladina appeared in the Waverley Local Court for the first time since he alleged assaulted a 31-year-old woman on Saturday at an address in nearby Bondi in Sydney's expensive eastern suburbs. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Papua New Guinea lawmaker pleads not guilty in Sydney court to assaulting woman
Papua New Guinea’s sidelined Petroleum Minister Jimmy Maladina has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a woman during a domestic dispute in Australia.
 
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has returned to his homeland Australia after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets.
 
A note is left with flower tributes near a crime scene at Bondi Junction in Sydney, Sunday, April 14, 2024, after several people were stabbed to death at a shopping center Saturday. Police have identified Joel Cauchi, 40, as the assailant that stabbed several people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot by a police officer. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Officer, bystanders hailed for confronting and stopping a man who killed 6 at a Sydney shopping mall
A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running “towards danger” to confront the attacker who stabbed and killed six people at a suburban Sydney shopping center.
 
A woman brings flowers to an impromptu memorial at Bondi Junction in Sydney, Sunday, April 14, 2024, after several people were stabbed to death at a shopping center Saturday. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people
Police have identified the assailant who stabbed and killed six people at a busy Sydney shopping center before a police officer fatally shot him.
 
People are led out from the Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. A man stabbed six people to death at the busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
‘Run, run, run': Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot
Police in Sydney say a man stabbed six people to death at a busy shopping center before he was fatally shot. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured in the Saturday attack.