News in Pics, December 29: best photos from around the world

Vicente Paredes, owner of El Palacio de la Careta, checks the masks on his store in Quito. Credit: AFP Photo

US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden take a walk with their new dog Commander, near their beach house in the Cape Henlopen neighborhood of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, US. Credit: Reuters Photo

A group of blindfolded initiates of the men's religious secret society known as Abakua (or Nanigo) take part in the oath ceremony of the Efi Barondi Cama

Leicester City's English midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (L) and Liverpool's English defender Trent Alexander-Arnold (R) react at the final whistle in the English Premier League match at King Power Stadium in Leicester. Credit: AFP Photo

Semara Putra, 34, carries rice after exchanging plastic waste for it at a collection place in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Credit: Reuters Photo

Kate Ridgway, conservator with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, removes items found in a time capsule recovered from Confederate General Robert E. Lee's monument while Sue Donovan, conservator for Special Collections of the University of Virginia Library, looks on in Richmond, Virginia, US. Credit: Reuters Photo

People warm themselves with a bonfire on a cold winter night in New Delhi. Credit: PTI Photo