A worker mends cracks under a bridge in Haikou, on Aug 8, 2013, which was open to traffic in 2007 but have developed more than 200 cracks, each wider than 0.25 millimeters, due to too many overloaded vehicles passing through. [Photo/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.