Blackbirds

For years, Lockheed Martin has been developing a successor to one of the fastest aircraft the world has ever seen, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Cold War reconnaissance craft that the U.S. Air Force retired almost three decades ago.

The 88th Academy Awards paid tribute to late stars like actors Saeed Jaffrey and Omar Sharif, and music legend David Bowie. A montage played out as Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl took to the stage to perform a soulful tribute. He sang The Beatles' hit song Blackbird

A new father, a grieving husband looks on at the infant's crib in a hospital - singing the Beatles' song 'Blackbird'

Hundreds of blackbirds fell dead from the sky at a small town in the US state of Arkansas for the second New Year's Eve in a row, a media report said.

Blackbirds are having hard time staying alive in the Southeastern U-S. Just a few days after as many as 5 thousand fell from the sky in Arkansas, some 500 birds dropped to their death in Louisiana.It's unclear if the cases are related - wildlife officials in both states are sending carcasses to a federal lab and the University of Georgia for testin...

Times Square had the ball drop, and Brasstown, NC, had its descending possum. But no place had a New Year's Eve as unusual, or freakishly disturbing, as Beebe, Ark.Around 11 that night, thousands of red-winged blackbirds began falling out of the sky over this small city about 35 miles northeast of Little Rock. They landed on roofs, roads, front law...

Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 ...

For years, Lockheed Martin has been developing a successor to one of the fastest aircraft the world has ever seen, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Cold War reconnaissance craft that the U.S. Air Force retired almost three decades ago.

The 88th Academy Awards paid tribute to late stars like actors Saeed Jaffrey and Omar Sharif, and music legend David Bowie. A montage played out as Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl took to the stage to perform a soulful tribute. He sang The Beatles' hit song Blackbird

A new father, a grieving husband looks on at the infant's crib in a hospital - singing the Beatles' song 'Blackbird'

Hundreds of blackbirds fell dead from the sky at a small town in the US state of Arkansas for the second New Year's Eve in a row, a media report said.

Blackbirds are having hard time staying alive in the Southeastern U-S. Just a few days after as many as 5 thousand fell from the sky in Arkansas, some 500 birds dropped to their death in Louisiana.It's unclear if the cases are related - wildlife officials in both states are sending carcasses to a federal lab and the University of Georgia for testin...

Times Square had the ball drop, and Brasstown, NC, had its descending possum. But no place had a New Year's Eve as unusual, or freakishly disturbing, as Beebe, Ark.Around 11 that night, thousands of red-winged blackbirds began falling out of the sky over this small city about 35 miles northeast of Little Rock. They landed on roofs, roads, front law...

Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 ...