A villager walks on a dried out reservoir in Shima 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.