But several people welcomed Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, back to the service after he shared a photo of his dog, Beast, giving the pet a moment of fame.
Norwich boss Chris Hughton has welcomed Mark Clattenburg's upcoming return to refereeing following the dismissal of racial abuse allegations.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said that while the law does not offer the right to work to all Syrian refugees, it is a welcome mark of progress.
Dan Smith, frontman with Bastille, whose single Pompeii has passed the 26 million streams mark, welcomed the move.
For this reason, Mr Bush's foreign-policy duo deserve to be treated with a wary respect rather than the hallelujahs that have so far welcomed them.*To mark his coming of age, The Economist calls on the world to dispense forthwith with George Bush's "W".
Popping up on one of the many kiddie TV shows who faithfully welcomed the new Mark Owen back to the fold, he claimed, to goggle-eyed disbelief, that he didn't care whether it went to No 1 in the charts or No 101.
Even the title is a pick-me-up: animated, garrulous, entertaining and breaking an unwritten rule (since when were three exclamation marks welcomed in poetry?).
Analysts have welcomed the move, marking it as a step forward for the world's second largest economy.
He said: "It's broadly to be welcomed because it marks a shift away from remote policing - that's cameras - to actually using traffic cops.
But only three blocks from the manicured campus of the Immaculate Conception Archdiocesan School, a new Islamic school stood by a street sign marked: "Welcome to the Taliban".
Tory MPs welcomed the decision, which marks a significant escalation of the policy Cameron has adopted of allowing honours to be awarded for political service.
