A villager looks over a corn field plagued by drought in Yantang village, Shaoyang city, Hunan province on July 27, 2013. The province has been under severe drought due to high temperatures and little rain of late. [Photo/Xinhua]
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.