Melinda French Gates (L), Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gestures next to her husband Bill Gates during a panel session at the 45th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Jan 23, 2015. [Photo/IC]
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.