Quetta, Pakistan Two suicide bombings against a Shiite's Quds Day procession and an Ahmadi mosque kill several people.

Dubai, UAE A smoke bomb may have been responsible for the downing of a UPS Boeing Co. 747-400 Cargo Plane in Dubai. The plane was headed to Cologne, Germany. After numerous attempts to land in a government-owned landing facility, the plane crashed into the parking lot and bounced before it landed, leaving a crash site one kilometer long. There were no ground casualties, but the two pilots were killed. The two pilots were Americans. One from Florida and one from Kentucky.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Nineteen people died when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a police station when there were many school children passing by. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Copenhagen, Denmark In an incident suggested to be terror-related aimed at Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten's office in Aarhus, a man of Chechnyan origin allegedly caused an explosion in the basement of a Copenhagen hotel. After the unsuccessful attack, the perpetrator fled to the nearby H.C. Ørstedsparken, where he was caught by the Danish police. The police feared the that man had an undetonated bomb in his backpack and avoided coming near the man, until the detonation machine known as "Rullemarie", shot at the backpack to confirm that the content was harmless.

Hakkâri Province, Turkey. The attack occurred when a remote-controlled device explodes, on a minibus in the Turkish village of Gecitli in southeastern Hakkari near the borders with Iraq and Iran. 12 people have died, and another 3 were injured.

The 2010 European terror plot was an alleged Pakistan-based Al-Qaeda plot to launch "commando-style" terror attacks on France, Britain, and Germany.[108] The existence of the plot was revealed in late September 2010 after it was disrupted by intelligence agencies.