Welcomed in 2009 with New Year Celebrations

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Billions of people around the world have farewell 2008 and welcomed in 2009 with New Year celebrations and they calls for peace and new hopes.

Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean was the first to welcome new year 2009 at 10am Greenwich Mean Time. Before the new year arrived in New Zealand an hour later.New Zealand started celebrating the new years celebrations a stunning firework display in Auckland.

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In New York City huge crowds joined New Year celebrations in Times Square to watch a giant cystal ball drop on the stroke of midnight.Bill Clinton, the former US president, and his wife Hillary, were among the tens of thousands packed into the square.

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Australia started celebrating the new years celebrations with a record crowd gathered in the Australian city to watch Sydney’s biggest fireworks display yet. Around 5,000 kilograms of shells, comets and experimental fireworks lit up the sky over the Opera House and the iconic steel bridge, which dominate the city’s harbour.

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In London, an estimated 700,000-strong crowd cheered a spectacular 12-minute fireworks display on the banks of the River Thames.

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In the French capital new years celebrations, over half a million people had already thronged on the Champs-Elysees an hour before the bells welcomed in the new year.

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Thousands of South Africans and African immigrants took to the streets in a spectacular carnival of song and dance as they bid farewell to 2008 in Johannesburg and new years celebrations.

Tokyo Welcomed in 2009 With a different way.They have been setup “New Year’s Village for Temporary Workers” to provide clothing, meals and shelter to those in need. Thousands of people have been laid off amid the economic crisis.

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New years celebrations in Thailand were overshadowed by the deaths of at least 59 people in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub. Police said fireworks let off in the club at midnight were thought to have triggered the blaze.

Queenslanders celebrating the new year celebrations have expressed hope that it may be better than 2008.

Welcomed in 2009 with New Year Celebrations

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