A participant and her pet dog, both dressed in red dresses, run along a Hutong, Chinese for "small alley", during the Red Dress Run charity event on Mother's Day in Beijing, May 12, 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.