Actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Chief Vijay broke down on Monday as he met families of victims of the stampede that killed 41 people at his rally in Karur last month.

Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in the street Wednesday after Brazil’s bloodiest police raid killed at least 119 people, spotlighting the city’s controversial war against drug gangs entrenched in poor neighborhoods.

And yet, every so often, we try. From Beijing to Dubai, humans have spent decades firing silver iodide into clouds, hoping to bend the weather to our will. The latest to attempt this act of atmospheric persuasion was Delhi — a city so desperate for clean air it decided to summon rain from a clear sky.