A woman takes a break as she harvests cotton near the dried up Shiyang river on the outskirts of Minqin county, Gansu province Sept 19, 2013. Some rivers have already vanished in northwestern Gansu, one of China's driest regions. [Photo/Agencies]
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.