The rare pregnancy of the critically endangered Chinese subspecies N. p. asiaeorientalis, called jiangtun in Chinese, has shut down 21 kilometers of the Yangtze River’s oxbow within the reserve from the public. [Photo by Gao Baoyan/for China Daily]
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.