Another new world record

Bolt breaks 200m world record against headwind.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica, the Olympic men's 100m gold medalist, broke the men's 200m world record in 19.30 seconds en route to his golden double last night, even into a headwind of 0.9m per second.

The previous record of 19.32 seconds was set by American Michael Johnson in the 1996 Olympic Games. The 21-year-old had already broken the 100m world mark in the Games when he became the fastest man in the world in 9.69 seconds.

Former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng died.

But early in the morning, I received a piece of shocking news on the internet. Hua Guofeng, a former leader of the Communist Party of China, died yesterday at the age of 87. It is said that Hua died of illness at 12:50 pm in Beijing.

Hua was an outstanding CPC member, a long-tested and loyal Communist fighter and a proletarian revolutionary who once held important leading posts in the CPC and the government.

Born in 1921, Hua once served as the Chinese premier and chairman of the CPC Central Committed.