Inwhat is considered London's worst terrorist attack, the city's publictransportation system suffered a series of coordinated suicide attacks.

The next day, Israel saw its first suicide attack for more than a year: at a mall in Dimona, a Palestinian put an abrupt end to his own life, and that of an elderly Israeli woman.

In Afghanistan NATO helicopters were called on to help repel an attack by suicide-bombers and gunmen on the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, where many Westerners stay.