His spokesman said any suggestion there was something wrong in the arrangement whereby Mr Brown paid his brother for a cleaner they both shared was "wholly unjustified".

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Specialist Sabo's widow, Rose Mary Sabo-Brown and his brother, George Sabo, will join the President at the White House to commemorate his example of selfless service and sacrifice.

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Ms. Norden called her brother, Mr. Brown.

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Azer Khalilov said his brother had written 15 letters to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband, but that these letters had not been received by the British consul in Bishkek.

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Before entering Brown University in the fall, he will take a year off (with Brown's approval) to work with his 22-year-old brother, Alexander, in a Web-development company they co-founded.

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"That he somehow did not suffer the same ultimate fate as his brother, and survived, is little short of miraculous, " prosecutor Edward Brown QC said.

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