A staff member from a pet shop dries a dog with a blower in sweltering Wuyi county, East China's Zhejiang province, August 6, 2013. [Photo by Zhang Jiancheng/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.