Singapore - The Singapore government Monday recalled a statement made earlier in the day saying the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) had sent a 20-man medical team to Afghanistan as the city state's contribution to the multinational reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

A corrective statement from the Singapore government said the previous statement, saying an SAF team comprising medical and nursing officers was deployed, had been sent to news outlets in error.

Kabul - At least one civilian and two Afghan police were killed, while two others were injured in a suicide attack in Dand district of Kandahar province, officials said Monday.

The suicide bomber in police uniform was trying to enter into the Dand district headquarters when guards at the main gate stopped him, and he detonated the explosives, said Zulmai Ayubi, spokesman for the provincial government.

"There are no any casualties of the district officials reported but the explosion damaged the main entrance of the building," he added.

Nairobi/Goma - The Congolese army and Tutsi rebels have been involved in some of the worst clashes for a week despite rebel leader Laurent Nkunda telling a United Nations envoy that he supports peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said Monday.

"Yesterday we had a lot of clashes in Riwindi (125 kilometres north of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province) and its outskirts," Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich, military spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

London, Nov 17 : Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie’s relationship with her father Jon Voight apparently turned more sour after the veteran actor announced his support for presidential candidate John McCain during the election campaigns.

According to her friends, the ‘Tomb Raider’ star was “embarrassed” that her father, who attended the Republican national convention, was among a few celebrities who were backing the ill-fated McCain campaign

Melbourne, Nov. 17 : INFOSYS Technologies Australia chief executive officer Gary Ebeyan has decided to leave the company, and he will be replaced by Jackie Korhonen, vice -president, IBM Australia-New Zealand managed business process services.

She will begin her stint at Infosys'' today but will assume the CEO role on December 15.

Ebeyan will stay on in an advisory role until January 2009, the company said.

New York, Nov 17 : Pop singer Prince is spreading the teachings of Jehovah''s Witnesses, the Christian denomination, by going door-to-door in LA.

In an interview with this week''s New Yorker, the purple-loving pop star said that he started following the teachings of the religion two years ago.

And since then he''s started leaving his gated community to knock on doors and proselytise.

"Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they''re totally cool about it," The New York Post quoted Prince as saying.

The "When Doves Cry" singer further said that that he sees his conversion as more of "a realization.