(AP)

Blair delays vacation....

Tony Blair today decided to delay his summer holiday for a few days to help secure a United Nations resolution that would call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Mr Blair's decision, following that of his foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, to delay her own break, came as attempts to secure a diplomatic solution at the United Nations in New York yesterday continued to prove elusive.

President Bush, however, hasn't seen fit to delay his "working vacation" for something as trivial as 900 dead Lebanese, 3,000 wounded Lebanese, 1 million displaced Lebanese (a quarter of the total population!) and 62 Israeli deaths.

And just who are the "terrorists" when the ratio of Lebanese to Israeli civilians killed is roughly 20 to one?

(Casualty figures here and here.

Complete story here.