News in Pics, December 10: Best photos from around the world

People walk past decorations and lights placed ahead of the New Year and Christmas season in Skopje, North Macedonia. Credit: Reuters

A demonstrator gestures in front of a police officer during a protest in reaction to the death of Klodian Rasha, after he was shot dead during the country's overnight curfew, in Tirana, Albania. Credit: Reuters

A saleswoman adjusts the suit of a dressed-up doll representing baby Jesus and wearing a face mask to promote the use of masks as a precautionary measure amid the Covid-19 outbreak before Christmas celebration, inside a store in Mexico City, Mexico. Credit: Reuters

A volunteer waits to receive a Covid-19 vaccine produced by the Chinese Sinopharm during its trial at the Clinical Studies Center of the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru. Credit: AFP

Patient Joao do Nascimento Hendler, 62, is applauded by nurses and doctors as he leaves the Covid-19 Intensive Care Unit at Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Credit: AFP

A person gestures while interacting with Artist Benjamin Clegg's

Volunteer Sithu Aung prepares to close the back of an ambulance ahead of the burial of a person suspected of dying from the Covid-19 coronavirus in Yangon. Credit: AFP