Singaporeans went to the polls on Saturday with Opposition parties hoping to reduce the government's overwhelming majority amid voter disenchantment over the cost of living and immigration policies.

Trying to piece together Osama bin Laden's life prior to the US raid that killed him, Pakistani sleuths on Saturday focussed on Haripur district in the country's Northwest after his Yemeni widow said the Al Qaeda chief lived there before moving to Abbottabad near Islamabad.

Nepal's Information and communication minister Agni Sapkota has asked the UN not to interfere in the internal affairs of the country.

Taliban militants armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades on Saturday attacked the office of the governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, with casualties reported.

The Abbottabad compound, used by Osama bin Laden as a safe house till US commandos shot him dead, will be demolished soon by Pakistani security agencies so that it does not become a "sacred building for jihadis."

While the US-led forces were hunting for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan's unruly tribal areas for years, the Al Qaeda chief had been living a secluded life in a million-dollar mansion in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad for five years, according to one of his wives.

A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives near a police station south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 13 policemen in the country's deadliest attack in more than a month.

Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the US assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.

Pakistan must "come clean" over the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos in Abbottabad, a daily said on Thursday, warning that the country would be "further isolated from the world" if this was not done.

Pakistan was not consulted by the US over the Abbottabad assault that led to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden being killed, reiterated foreign secretary Salman Bashir on Thursday.