The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, September 11, 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.