A mother holds her son as she walks past tents at a village, the second day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the remote, mostly rural and mountainous Lushan county, Sichuan province, April 21, 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.