Causing a sensation on campus, four students row a boat made of 1,540 plastic bottles on Sept 14, 2011, at Chongqing University of Science and Technology. The boat is 4.84 meters by 1.3 meters, and it took nearly two months to assemble. [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.