President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Brazil was still willing to welcome anyone who wanted to return from the Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported. The head of state made those remarks on Christmas Day over lunch with a group of people who had arrived from the war-torn area on Dec. 23.
Once again the sheer number of entries coupled with their general excellence and diversity made shortlisting difficult. But we are confident our final roll-call is one of excellence with a nice balance of the refined, the quirky and the cultural.