Models display creation by Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani during the “One Night Only New York” fashion show in New York, October 24, 2013. Armani presented a special couture show of his private collection alongside his “Eccentrico” exhibition. - Photo by AFP
US tennis player Serena Williams prepares to serve to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic on October 24, 2013 during their WTA Championships tennis match in Istanbul. - Photo by AFP
An F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft of the Swiss Air Force releases flares on October 11, 2012 during a flight demonstration over Axalp in the Bernese Oberland. A Swiss army fighter jet crashed in a mountainous area of the Alpine country on October 23, 2013, the defence ministry said, though it was not immediately known if there were any victims. “I can confirm that there has been a crash. It is an F/A-18,” ministry spokesman Peter Minder told AFP, confirming reports that the fighter jet had crashed in the central c
A tourist poses next to a two-metre-high blood red sculpture of a head blowing bubble gum by Qian Sihua, which is part of the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition which runs on the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk in Sydney, on October 25, 2013. The world's largest annual free-to-the-public outdoor sculpture exhibition runs 24 October - 10 November 2013 and features over 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and around the world. - Photo by AFP
A squirrel monkey looks in a mirror at the London Zoo on October 24, 2013. The keepers have installed a mirror in the “Meet the Monkeys” enclosure in preparation of a male monkey named “Eubie” getting introduced to family. The London Zoo is home to over 20 black-capped or Bolivian squirrel monkeys. The species mainly eat insects, fruit and seeds. - Photo by AFP
Juventus' Uruguayan defender Jose Martin Caceres (Left) vies with Real Madrid's defender Sergio Ramos during the UEFA Champions League Group B football match Real Madrid CF vs Juventus at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on October 23, 2013. - Photo by AFP
A group of clowns smile during a family photo for the Latin American Clown Convention in Mexico City, on October 23, 2013. At least 500 clowns from Peru, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica are taking part in the event. - Photo by AFP
A Palestinian fisherman throws his net on Gaza beach on October 24, 2013 in Deir al-Balah. - Photo by AFP
A firefighter back burning near Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains. Firefighters in Australia took advantage of lighter winds on October 25 to get on top of a nine-day bushfire emergency as officials said the military could be liable for compensation after starting one of the worst blazes. - Photo by AFP
A protester with a Guy Fawkes mask raises his fist as he takes part with tens of thousands students to a demonstration during a demonstration against the government's cuts to education spending in Madrid on October 24, 2013. - Photo by AFP
A helicopter drops water to douse bushfires along the Linksview Road near Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains on October 23, 2013. Firefighters in Australia battled hot, dry winds and soaring temperatures on October 23 as new blazes began breaking out in a week-long bushfire disaster that shows no signs of easing. - Photo by AFP
This October 24, 2013 NASA satellite image shows smoke(C-bluish) from wildfires burning near Sydney, Australia. Thousands of largely volunteer firefighters have been battling infernos for more than a week across the state of New South Wales that have destroyed over 200 homes, with the Blue Mountains region west of Sydney the focal point. - Photo by AFP
An opposition fighter patrols through an abandoned building in the Jubaila neighbourhood of Syria's northeastern city of Deir Ezzor on October 22, 2013. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is feeling strengthened as international pressure on his regime appears to ease amid growing Western fears of an Islamist takeover and unwavering Russian support, analysts say. - Photo by AFP
A German police car passes a mural painting featuring the emblematic US eagle with a badge that reads “National Security Agency worldwide” at the at the Ehrenfeld railway embankment in Cologne, western Germany on October 24, 2013. The mural of artist collective Captain Borderline comments on the NSA intelligence scandal. Germany on October 24, 2013 summoned the US ambassador to Berlin over suspicions that Washington spied on Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said. - Photo by
A critically endangered Sumatran tiger is seen in its enclosure at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta on October 23, 2013. In the Greenpeace report “Licence to Kill” released on October 22, Greenpeace said that Singapore-based Wilmar, the world's biggest palm oil processor, was sourcing its oil from illegally cleared land and destroying the habitat of critically endangered Sumatran tigers. The palm oil sector is the largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, home to around 10 percent of the world's tropical forest, where il
A Palestinian man trains a horse in Gaza City on October 23, 2013. - Photo by AFP
Students hold a banner as they demonstrate against the government's cuts to education and the LOMCE (Organic Law for the improvement of Educational Quality), a controversial reform of the education system, in Barcelona on October 24, 2013. The new law, only supported by the ruling Popular Party, should be approved by the Senate next month and applied during 2014-2015 school year, despite the opposition of the educational community, which has been calling for the resignation of the minister of Education, Jose Ignaci
The APS attack claimed 147 lives in mere hours on Dec 16, 2014, but its impact — documented through the voices of survivors, grieving families, first responders, and a nation still grappling with terrorism — continues to shape Pakistan's struggle for peace a decade later.
So long as the government does not realise that it needs to put its own house in order, growth will remain anaemic and the world will be reluctant to help.
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