Women seeing each other for the first time in a year greet while taking part in a "Light The Shore" event on the one year anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, New Jersey October 29, 2013. [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.