In November 2010, the first heavy ion collisions with 208Pb beams at the center of mass energy per nucleon √ sNN = 2.76 TeV have been observed by the three experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It opens a new era for the research program of the high energy density QCD matter using the heavy ion beams at the energy frontier. At the LHC energy, many hard probes are available, such as jets and particles with heavy quarks comparable to those at RHIC. These hard probes provide a powerful tool to explore the nature of a deconfined quark-gluon QCD mater, called a quark gluon plasma (QGP). In the soft particle production, on the other hand, one can obtain the global event properties in heavy ion collisions, which provide an important baseline to characterize the high energy density QCD matter. In this article, we present the global event properties of Pb+Pb collisions from the first data in 2010 measured by the ALICE collaboration. The charged particle multiplicity density, identified charged hadron spectra, particle ratios, Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) radii, and anisotropic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV are presented. The results are compared to those at the RHIC energy.