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Stories for January 4th 2015

• Sunday, January 4th 2015 - 09:06 UTC

  Magallanes region in extreme south Chile reports record low unemployment

  

  Magallanes region in the extreme south of Chile reported the lowest unemployment rate in the country, 2.3% during the September-November mobile quarter according to the country's latest release from the Stats Office. This represents 1.8 percentage points less than the same period a year ago (4.1%).

• Sunday, January 4th 2015 - 06:39 UTC

  Most types of cancer traced to 'bad luck' rather than risk factors, say scientists

  

  Most types of cancer can be put down to bad luck rather than risk factors such as smoking, a study has suggested. US teams were trying to explain why some tissues were millions of times more vulnerable to cancer than others.

• Sunday, January 4th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Prolonged extreme droughts could help to explain collapse of Mayan civilization

  

  The mysterious collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization has been attributed to a variety of factors, most notably overhunting, deforestation, and a catastrophic peasant uprising. However the theory of prolonged extreme drought has been gaining ground among the scientific community in recent years regarding the Mayan demise.