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BBC News with Ally Micue. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has increased his lead over his main rival in the presidential election. After results from a third of polling stations, President Karzai has 46% of the vote, comfortably ahead of his main opponent Abdullah Abdullah who has 31%. Mr. Abdullah has made further allegations about the poll. Speaking to the World Service he said he would not accept a compromised outcome. My concern is about massive fraud, state-crafted, state-engineered fraud which is taking place throughout the country. Today we were having meetings with representatives of five provinces. In eyewitness accounts of the elections, its just dreadful. Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has suggested on a visit to Helmand Province that more soldiers could be sent to Afghanistan to help train Afghan troops. In his fourth trip to the country in a year, he promised there’d be new vehicles with stronger armor in order to protect British soldiers from roadside bombs. A funeral Mass has taken place in the United States for Senator Edward Kennedy, the Democratic Party veteran and last representative of an American political dynasty. He died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77. At the service in Boston, President Obama delivered the eulogy. We can still hear his voice bellowing through the Senate chamber, face reddened, fist pounding at the podium, a veritable force of nature in support of health care or workers rights or civil rights. And yet, while his causes became deeply personal, his disagreements never did. And thats how Ted Kennedy became the greatest legislator of our time. The service was attended by much of Americas political elite including three former Presidents. Senator Kennedys body is now being taken to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington. Two American policewomen in California have described how they became suspicious about Philip Garrido who is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Duguard as an 11-year-old and hol