NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy speaks on a satellite phone shortly after he landed in the Soyuz TMA-08M space capsule some 146 km southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in 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.