Tibetan women compete in a tug-of-war to celebrate the Wangguo Festival in Doilungdeqen county in Lhasa of Tibet autonomous region on July 17, 2013. [Photo/Li Zhou/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.