LONDON -- The July 7, 2005 attacks, which saw four suicide bombers detonate four bombs across London's transport network during morning rush hour, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds more, comprised the worst terrorist attack in the UK since the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.
In the aftermath, as the city started making sense of what had happened, newspapers at home and abroad tried to encapsulate the full scale of the terrible events on their front pages.
One word dominated the headlines on the day after that fateful day: "London's day of terror," The Guardian wrote; "Terror comes to London," said The Independent; "Al-Qa'eda brings terror to the heart of London," The Daily Telegraph announced.
"Bloodied but unbowed," the Daily Mirror insisted, an early indication of the defiance the city was to assume in the weeks following. In The Times, the date of the incident was already converted into two memorable digits: 7/7 - the UK's 9/11.
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The mangled remains of the Number 30 double decker bus featured prominently, the twisted sides of the upper deck hanging over the pavement of Tavistock Square, thin air where the back rows of seats - and their occupants - ought to be.
Inside each paper, dozens of pages attempted to document the day and make sense of what had happened.
Among The Guardian's 20 pages of coverage a leader insisted: "This was not an attack on the rulers or the powerful. It was... an attack on ordinary Londoners, men and women, young and old, black and white, Christian and Muslim, Hindu and Jew who all abhor such violence... The important thing was that rage was not met with rage."
In The Times, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani wrote a letter of support. "These are dastardly, cowardly acts and the best way to deal with them is to stand up to them," he wrote.
Much of The Independent's dedicated 35 pages was given up to eyewitness accounts, with an editorial deeming it "the terrorist attack all had expected," while the Financial Times concurred, insisting: "There was a certain inevitability that London would eventually face a vicious assault."
The final edition of July 7's Evening Standard, London's main newspaper, informed many of the city's inhabitants that hadn't heard the news that "terror bombs explode across London." It was too soon to know the full scale, and newsstands just warned: "Many dead." A pull-out supplement, celebrating London's victory in the bid for the 2012 Olympics, which had been announced the day before, creating a striking juxtaposition of jubilation alongside the widespread sadness.
Abroad, bloodied survivors shared cover space with murky images of passengers in dark tunnels underground. "Terror" was joined by "slaughter." Then Prime Minister Tony Blair's promise of justice was referenced again. The death count was reported as 37, a figure that was to climb as time went on.
A white masked woman featured again and again in the coverage, her gauze disguise an anonymised reminder of the human cost of the carefully-planned bombs.
Davinia Douglass, then Davinia Turrell, was on the train pulling out of Edgware Road station when Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated his device. She suffered facial burns but made a full recovery and finally went public with her story several years after the event.
Some of the global front pages from July 8, 2005:
US
Russia
Israel
Greece
Spain
Germany
Portugal
Belgium
