Visitors in summer clothes tour Yongjin Park along West Lake on April 15. The temperature in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, on Monday approached 33 C, the highest for the same day since 1951. [Photo/Xinhua]
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.