Q: When I was shopping at the Asian food market, I saw a durian fruit in the frozen food section. What do they taste like, ...

An Indonesian airline was forced to delay a flight on Monday after the pungent smell of durian permeated the plane’s cabin and almost caused a brawl between passengers and crew. Travelers aboard a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Durian, the world's most controversial fruit, smells somewhere between rotting flesh and old, sweaty clothes. And yet it's ...

The library of an Australian university was evacuated last week because of a suspected gas leak which turned out to be something much different. Around 550 people evacuated the University of ...

Last week, the library at Australia’s University of Canberra was evacuated due to fears that a funky smell was being caused by a gas leak. Firefighters were called to the scene and hazmat crews ...

A group of passengers on a Sriwijaya Air flight almost came to blows with the crew over the foul and smelly presence of durian fruit, which temporarily grounded the plane, according to multiple ...

Residents of Lytham, Lancashire sounded an alarm after smelling what they thought was a gas leak, only to discover later that the stench was coming from the "world's smelliest fruit." Shutterstock ...

The run-up to exams is a stressful period for university students everywhere, and now unfortunate scholars in Australia have had their preparations disrupted by an unlikely culprit: the durian fruit.

JAKARTA — An Indonesian variety of the durian – a pungent, spiky fruit considered a delicacy across many parts of Asia – has been sold in a store on the island of Java for a hefty $1,000 per fruit.

Researchers have confirmed the presence of the rare amino acid ethionine in a plant -- or more precisely, in the fruit of the durian tree. Despite its pungent odor, durian is very popular in Southeast ...