This week saw one of the most barbaric attacks carried out by the Taliban in Peshawar that killed over 140 people in the Army Public School, mostly students. (Photo: AP)
Reverend Libby Lane poses for pictures with Bishop of Birkenhead Keith Sinclair (L) and Bishop of Chester Peter Forster. (Photo: AFP)
The announcement came five months after the church ended a long and divisive dispute by voting to allow women to serve as bishops. (Photo: AFP)
Reverend Libby Lane has been named the first woman bishop by The Church of England (Photo: AP)
US President Barack Obama with US Ambassador to India-designate Richard Rahul Verma at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)
Indian American Richard Verma with Dr Sampat Shivangi, National President of Indian American Forum for Political Education, after being sworn-in as the US Ambassador to India. (Photo: PTI)
Indian American Richard Verma being sworn in as the US Ambassador to India by the Secretary of State, John Kerry, at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department in Washington DC on Friday. (Photo: PTI)
A candle tributes with a photo of siege victim Katrina Dawson is seen at a temporary memorial site close to the Lindt cafe in the central business district of Sydney (Photo: AP)
A candle tribute with a photo of siege victim Tori Johnson is seen at a temporary memorial site close to the Lindt cafe in the central business district of Sydney (Photo: AP)
As night fell, large parts of the central city were all but deserted. (Photo: AP)
In the biggest security operation in Sydney since a bombing at the Hilton Hotel killed two people in 1978, major banks closed their offices in the central business district and people were told to avoid the area. (Photo: AP)
Just one day before the Peshawar attack Man Haron Monis, a self-styled cleric, held hostage several people at a downtown Sydney cafe. (Photo: AP)
This photo released in a statement by the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 shows the Taliban fighters who stormed a military-run school in Peshawar (Photo: AP)
So far, Pakistan has executed 28 terrorists. Around 3,000 convicted terrorists in Pakistan could be in-line to get executed in the next few days. (Photo: AP)
As an immediate effect of the attack, Pakistan lifted its moratorium on death penalty. (Photo: AP)