A woman looks out from her window among foliage drawn on the facade of the Wohngenossenschaft Soldaritaet coop apartment buildings as part of a 22,000-square-meter mural in Berlin, Germany, Aug 20, 2013. [Photo/CFP]
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.