Hundreds queue to see giant flower

Hundreds of curious visitors braved long queues in the French city of Nantes on Monday to catch a rare glimpse of an enormous flower that appears only once a decade. More than 2,000 people rushed to see the Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the titan arum, at the city's Jardin des Plantes after it began flowering on Sunday. The phallus-shaped flower is the largest in the world, reaching heights of up to three metres (10 feet), though the one in Nantes measures only 1.6 metres.