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Brooklyn trio We Are Augustines' debut album sounds like it's been pieced together with spare parts from various other big indie-rock bands.

A year or so ago I bought some lovely skewers with a pig design on from my favourite cookshop in Paris, E Dehillerin in the Rue Coquillière. I've actually only just started using them but they look great, in a twee sort of way. This recipe involves most bits of the pig but you can really use whatever cuts and offal you fancy. It's also a great way to use rare breed pork from farms where you have to buy a quarter of a beast. Richard Vaughan at Huntsham Farm in Herefordshire does exactly that with his Middle White pork and Longhorn beef.

The News Matrix: Thursday 24 March 2011

Inter Milan today fired their manager Gian Piero Gasperini, concluding three league games provided enough evidence that he wasn't up to the task of leading the Italian giants.

A 14-part series that attempts to make simple and accessible one of the most complex subjects imaginable will be distributed via booklets given away free with The Independent and The Independent on Sunday beginning tomorrow, and will simultaneously be made available at independent.co.uk/historyoftheworld. Starting with the origins of the Universe itself, it traces the formation of our planet, the first stirrings of life, the shaping of the continents, the evolution of species, the birth of the human race, and the millennia of history that have led up to the sophisticated but precarious civilisations of the present day.

APNewsBreak: 22 states, DC back Montana in Supreme Court corporate spending fight

Protesters in Chicago for NATO summit prepare for largest demonstration; thousands to march

World leaders weary of war will tackle Afghanistan's post-conflict future when the NATO summit opens Sunday.

Italian news reports say three people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Italy near Bologna.

A growing number of parents and educators are urging Michigan lawmakers to change the date by which kids can enter kindergarten.

Since Affirmed last won horse racing's Triple Crown in 1978, 11 3-year-olds have won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness - but fallen short in the Belmont Stakes. I'll Have Another will try to snap that streak on June 9....

Joplin, Mo., residents recover from last year's deadly tornado that left 161 people dead and hundreds more injured.

Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday.

SpaceX aborted the historic launch of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station at the last second because of a rocket engine glitch.

Six school buses bound for a metro Atlanta amusement park were involved in a multi-vehicle crash Saturday, sending 65 people to the hospital, including a seriously injured driver, Georgia authorities said.

With Thanks, Blind Chinese Dissident Arrives in US

Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest last month, says he is at a Beijing airport about to board a flight for New York.

Facebook CEO weds his college sweetheart in a backyard ceremony.

Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires.