News in Pics, December 20: Best photos from around the world

A Palestinian woman and a child riding a bicycle pass in front of members of the security forces in the Balata camp, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Credit: AFP

Volunteers work in an assembly line manner to unload a semi truck full of food boxes at the Athens County Fairgrounds in Athens, Ohio. Credit: AFP

Miss Normandie Amandine Petit (R) and Miss Provence April Benayoum wait for the results of the Miss France 2021 beauty contest at the Puy-du-Fou, in Les Epesses, western France. Credit: AFP

Workers chat while working in the construction of Ceiba, an ecological sailboat that will work with solar panels, electric and hydraulic energy to reduce to almost zero its carbon footprint, at a shipyard in Punta Morales, Costa Rica. Credit: Reuters

A youth climbs the rubble of a destroyed building in the city of Tawergha, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of Libya's capital close to the port city of Misrata. Credit: AFP

A man wearing a face mask looks out of a closed shop amid the outbreak of Covid-19 in downtown Mexico City, Mexico. Credit: Reuters