A pair of 1.8-meter-tall high-heel shoes with 318,000 diamonds is displayed at a shopping mall in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong province, on Feb 19, 2013. [Photo by Liu Jiao/CFP]
An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.