Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Piracy off East Africa has subsided thanks to a coordinated international response.

But a flare-up off the coast of West Africa isn't receiving the same attention

from governments or even from the shipping companies that are at risk.

And our correspondent tries out a training simulation for armed police.

It didn't go well.

It's hard to measure how much these exercises reduce shootings,

but they do reveal the nuance behind split-second life-or-death decisions.

First up though.

The first baby ever born using in-vitro fertilization turned 41 this summer.

Without IVFI wouldn't be here.

My sons wouldn't be here.

There'd be 6 to 8 million of us not here.

The hope and joy for people to have families is amazing.

Louise Brown, who is now herself a mother of two, says her own mother would be astonished

at how far the technology has come.

Yet fertility remains one of the least understood areas of medicine.

Clinics nevertheless often present it as an exact science.

And demand is growing.

Europe and America are the largest markets with places such as China catching up.

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