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.

Hamburg - The tie between England and Germany at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin may be the most high-profile international friendly on this week but much attention will also be on Diego Maradona's Argentina, who take on Scotland in his first match in charge.

Maradona arrived in Scotland to a hero's welcome at the weekend with Scottish fans clambering for autographs, many clutching a picture of his "hand of God" goal against England in the 1986 World Cup.

New York, Nov 17 : While President-elect Barack Obama is all set to take the highest office in the United States, his team still prefers to travel in the economy class.

Obama''s chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuel was spotted travelling on a US Airways flight from Chicago to DC on Nov 13.

The man, considered Obama’s right hand, had many passengers gaping at him with surprise.