15 years ago, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martina Vic Magnussen was killed in an apartment near Mephe.

23-year-old Martina Vic Magnussen was found partially buried in the basement.

Before being questioned, the only suspect in the case had fled the UK to Yemen.

I made a promise to Martina's family to find out what happened. Murder in Mephe. Part of the

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We examine numbers, big and small, in the news and in everyday life,

along with the stories they weave.

This week, the average life expectancy of Americans is shrinking at an alarming rate.

Between 2019 and 2021, a staggering 2.7 years was shaved off leaving the revised figure

76.1 years. The lowest it's been in more than two decades.

It also sees the states rank 46th in the global life expectancy charts behind Estonia and

just a nose ahead of Panama. So why on average are citizens in the world's richest country

dying younger? Oh, and spoiler alert, this story isn't really about Covid.

What we see first of all is starting in about 2010. The steady progress that the US has been

seeing in life expectancy just flattens off. But then the decline probably starts, I would say,

around 2014. John Byrne Murdoch is chief data reporter at the Financial Times in London.

The single biggest reason seems to be these deaths from external causes. That essentially means

something that isn't from a disease, from an infection, from a virus. It's things like

Ireland's six accidents, which could be road accidents or accidents at the workplace,

particularly in the last two or three years have been rising. We've got drug overdoses.

John tells me alcohol related deaths suicide and the knock on health implications of a poor

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