‘Not everyone will support this and there will be quite a big argument,’ Cameron admitted. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters An end to lifetime council tenancies was signalled today by David Cameron as he warned the coming public spending cuts will not be restored when the economy... 

AP Photo/European Southern Observatory Scientists have indentified the star R136a1 — thought to be the heaviest star ever discovered, hundreds of times more massive than the sun — Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time. This montage shows a visible-light image of the Tarantula... 

Tony Hayward… his resignation paves the way for an unsympathetic Hollywood biopic. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Actor Michael Sheen looks a bit like a lot of people and sooner or later usually ends up playing them. It has already happened with Tony Blair, the young Brian Clough and David... 

Andy Coulson said he knew of no illegal activity while editing the newspaper. Photograph: Reuters The prime minister’s media adviser, Andy Coulson, freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News of the World and “actively encouraged”...