The Fear that Lies over Europe

Recent attacks in Europe, most though not all Islamist-inspired, have changed the atmosphere in Europe. It has become more cautious, more fearful. Plus, why pupils in Kenya are burning down their schools; the political conventions in the United States point to a fork in the road ahead; and has coal consumption in China really peaked?

(Photo: Men stand near flowers left in tribute to the French priest killed in a suburb of Rouen by men claiming allegiance to so-called Islamic State. Credit: Reuters)