Torrential rainfall causes regions in southeastern Spain to receive a month's worth of rain in one day, causing roads to completely wash away and a train to derail. (Reuters)(The New York Times)
A ten-story-hotel collapses in Villa Gesell, Argentina, leaving one person dead and at least seven other people trapped. (BBC News)
Germany's largest union and the dominant metalworkers union IG Metall commences a labor strike over the working conditions and wages of 3.9 million workers in the country. (DW)