With Pakistan and China getting closer in a multi-billion dollar deal to xenophobic violence against immigrants in South Africa, this week also saw massive devastation brought by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in neighboring Nepal. Pikspost brings its readers news from across the world that hogged headlines during the week -- in pictures.

Heather Mack of the U.S. smiles after being reunited with her baby inside a holding cell at a Denpasar court following her verdict on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, April 21, 2015., An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced Mack to 10 years in prison after finding her guilty of playing a role in murdering her mother, whose battered body was found stuffed into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali. Mack, a Chicago-area resident, was arrested with her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer last August after hotel staff discovered the body of Mack's mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in an abandoned suitcase in a taxi. REUTERS | Darren Whiteside

Smoke and ash rise from the Calbuco volcano as seen from the city of Puerto Montt, Chile, April 22, 2015. The volcano in southern Chile erupted for the first time in more than five decades on Wednesday, sending a thick plume of ash and smoke into the sky. REUTERS | Rafael Arenas