Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• UK election focuses on third party after poll surge (Reuters)
• David Attenborough reaches North Pole (AFP)
• Kidnappers of British boy killed in Pakistan clash: police (AFP)
• Fight Al-Qaeda with satire, ridicule: researchers (AFP)
• British election: Nick Clegg wins UK's first presidential-style TV debates (The Christian Science Monitor)

UK election focuses on third party after poll surge (Reuters) Posted: 17 Apr 2010 09:33 AM PDT Reuters - Nick Clegg, leader of Britain's third-largest political party, moved center stage in the election race on Saturday after his Liberal Democrats pushed the ruling Labour Party into third place in an opinion poll.

David Attenborough reaches North Pole (AFP) Posted: 17 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT AFP - Veteran wildlife broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has reached the North Pole for the first time at the age of 83, the BBC said Saturday.

Kidnappers of British boy killed in Pakistan clash: police (AFP) Posted: 17 Apr 2010 02:32 AM PDT AFP - Three men allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a British boy in Pakistan last month have been killed in a clash with police, a senior police officer said on Saturday.

Fight Al-Qaeda with satire, ridicule: researchers (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:02 PM PDT AFP - Satire and ridicule can help win the fight against Al-Qaeda by stripping it of its glamour and mystique, a team of researchers argue in a report released in London and in comments to AFP.

British election: Nick Clegg wins UK's first presidential-style TV debates (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Apr 2010 08:20 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor -  Britain’s frequently marginalized third party, the Liberal Democrats, celebrated Friday after its youthful leader Nick Clegg was judged to have scored a stunning victory over his Labour and Conservative counterparts in the UK’s first-ever US-style televised candidates’ debate.  Prime minster Gordon Brown and Conservative Party leader David Cameron both turned in solid performances by playing to their strengths over 90 minutes of Thursday night prime-time television, with the prime minister relying successfully on his experience and the nimble-footed opposition leader Cameron avoiding any banana-skins that could upset his party’s relatively narrow campaign lead. But in a surprise, polls and commentators awarded victory to the Liberal Democrat, Mr. Clegg, giving his party a potentially transformative boost in its push to break the stranglehold that Labour and the Tories have traditionally enjoyed in UK politics. Britain is apparently still heading for a "hung parliament" on May 6 if no party wins an outright majority.   “There are real opportunities for the Liberal Democrats now,” says Professor Andrew Russell of the University of Manchester, an expert on the Liberal Democrats’ role in British politics.  “The mere presence of Clegg last night has reminded people that there is a viable and legitimate choice from the other two main parties, and he seems to have done very well in the ratings largely by saying to the other two: ‘a plague on both your houses,’ ” says Russell.

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