According to a BBC study, Toronto has the most different nationalities in the world.
- Vietnam has won its first Olympic gold medal in the current games. Hoang Xuan Vinh, at the age of 41, won it in the men’s 10-metre air pistol competition.
- ‘Henry Ford said, ‘whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right’.
- Drake broke Billboards’ Hot 100 by having 20 of his songs on the list simultaneously, breaking, Justin Bieber’s record of 17.
- Pietism as a religion was a Christian movement, part of Lutheranism, that originated in Germany in the 17th Century and had almost disappeared by the turn of this century. It stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy. Bethel University in the USA has campuses in San Diego and St Paul, and has a Pietist background.
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