A truck carries rescue soldiers to Taiping township, one of the areas hardest-hit by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, in Lushang county, Ya'an city in Southwest China’s Sichuan province, on April 21, 2013.
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.