A flock of sheep find food on a snow-covered prairie in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Sept 12, 2014. Hami witnessed the first snowfall in this autumn Friday. [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.