A visitor feeds the black-headed gulls at Dianchi Lake in Kunming, on Oct 28, 2013. Every year, the gulls fly in the thousands from Siberia to Kunming, where they spend the winter. [Photo/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.