Liu Tingting steps on a shark and falls onto its back while Yao Peng helps her on the first underwater tour at East Lake Sea World in Wuhan, Hubei province, on July 9, 2013. [Photo/CFP]
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.