Brako, a Christian, was in the same year as AbdulMutallab at the English boarding school they attended in the western African nation of Togo and said they were close friends.

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Chifundo James, whose name translates into English as Mercy, has been living in the same orphanage from which Madonna took David Banda in 2006.

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Nanashi (57 rue Charlot, 3e, 01-44-61-45-49) is in the same vein as Rose Bakery but with a Japanese, rather than English, twist.

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Then French, where spelling is almost as crazy as in English, but where at least one given group of letters tend to be always pronounced in the same way.

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Apart from a sign in Arabic, Bengali and English, the building's exterior looks much the same as ever.

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