Students donning traditional Chinese uniforms attend the First Writing Ceremony to start their first day of the semester at the Confucius Temple elementary school in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, September 1. [Xu Qi/Asianewsphoto.com]
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.