NBA Houston Rockets star Jeremy Lin cradles a panda cub at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province on Aug 29, 2013.[He Haiyang/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.