German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a "Congress on the Future" of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Wuppertal, Germany, October 8, 2015. [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.