Visitors take photos of black-headed gulls at Dianchi Lake in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Monday. Every year, the gulls fly in the thousands from Siberia to Kunming, where they spend the winter. PHOTO BY HU CHAO / 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.