Bags of harmful algae, collected by volunteers, are stacked along the Zhan Bridge beach in Qingdao, Shandong province, on June 26, 2013. [Photo by Huang Xianjie/Asianewsphoto]
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.