Troops on the hospital vessel He Ping Fang Zhou hold a national-flag raising ceremony at the Gulf of Aden on Sept 30, 2010. The vessel had just completed its seven-day service in Djibouti. Zha Chunming / 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.