DAILYNEWSBUZZ.COM and our affiliates would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year 2009!!! As the fireworks began to light up the night sky around the world, many are celebrating the end of a bad, rocky year; and ushering in a hopefully better 2009.

In most parts of Asia, where the new year has already came, nations marked in their own individual fashion the passing of a disastrous year. Among them, Japanese temples rang their bells 108 times — representing the 108 evils being struck out — while worshippers threw coins as offererings and prayed.