Dean and seven of his tourists found themselves near El Reno last week on the jam-packed roads when the deadly twisters began to drop from the sky.

NPR: Storm Chasing Critical, Profitable And Dangerous

This makes the international decline look slightly eerie: blackbirds drop from the sky, plagues slacken and end, and there seems no absolute reason that societies leap from one state to another over time.

NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

They ignore the fact that crises always have a root cause, and they treat crises as if they just drop in from the sky at any moment.

FORBES: The War Against Big Banks Is A War Against Your Mind

Hawks and sparrows drop down from the blackened sky.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Away'

Its isolated branch on a Lake Victoria island receives money from the sky: with no landing strip, planes drop bags of cash to be collected by staff and security guards.

ECONOMIST: Business in Africa

Sky-Mobi (MOBI) went public last December and saw its shares immediately drop 25%.

FORBES: Why Corporate Governance is So Important to China

Mr. STORM: Well, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, you're sitting there in the dark and all these lights just drop down and they're almost, you can almost reach them.

NPR: Cirque du Soleil Interprets the Fab Four

The independent review by ex-Sky News boss Nick Pollard will seek to establish whether there were any "failings" in the decision to drop the Newsnight investigation.

BBC: Freddie Starr arrested in Jimmy Savile abuse inquiry