Once again, Europe has had to bear the consequences of the years of alienation and separation of its large community of migrants. And, once again, we are witnessing the carnage brought about by young men lured down the road to ruin.

Microchip pioneer Jack Kilby, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for co-inventing the integrated circuits that ushered in the digital age of personal computers, mobile phones and the internet, has died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 81.