Retired Chinese basketball star Yao Ming greets Serbia's Novak Djokovic before the world No 1's second round match against up-and-coming Austrian Dominic Thiem at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament, Oct 8, 2014. [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.