Tourists enjoy themselves on Golden Beach (Jinshatan) in Qingdao, a coastal city of Shandong province, August 17, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of tourists swarm to Qingdao to refresh themselves with sea water after the ending of dogs day. [Photo/IC]
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.