Crashed plane’s black box foundCAIRO — The cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt’s investigation committee said Thursday.The development raises hopes that investigators would find clues as to the cause of the May 19 crash, which remains unclear. No terror group has claimed responsibility for bringing the plane down.The Egyptian committee said the so-called black box — one of the two on board the plane — has been damaged but that the vessel searching for the wreckage managed to safely recover the “memory unit, which is the most important in the recorder.”The recorder was retrieved in “several stages,” the committee said, and is currently being transferred to the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. Once on shore, it will be handed over to the members of the committee who will unload and analyze the data.

Lions condemned to life in captivityNEW DELHI — Officials at a forest reserve in western India have sentenced three lions to life in captivity after they were found to have eaten humans.Seventeen lions in the Gir Forest reserve in Gujarat state were rounded up by forest authorities last month after three people living near the sanctuary were killed in attacks.Gujarat’s chief conservator, A.P. Singh, said human remains were found in the excrement of one male lion and two females.He said the male had attacked and killed the humans, while the females had eaten the leftovers.An official at a nearby zoo said Thursday that the male lion was moved to the zoo and the females will be held at a rescue center.