DAN BILEFSKY

While Abdul Rahman Haroun’s determination impressed some, prosecutors and Eurotunnel, which operates the Channel Tunnel, said he had put his life and the lives of others at risk by undertaking the perilous journey.

Staff members at a zoo in Odense, Denmark's third-largest city, dissected the corpse of a 9-month-old lion in front of an audience including children.

An African migrant risked his life this week by climbing four fences, evading around 400 security cameras and international search teams, and walking about 30 miles underground in the darkness of the Channel Tunnel in an effort to reach England from near Calais, France. He dodged trains as they hurtled by at up to 100 mph.

As officials struggled Wednesday to explain why a jet with 150 people on board crashed in relatively clear skies, an investigator said evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane's descent and was unable to get back in.