US presidential hopeful John Edwards said yesterday his wife’s cancer has returned, but said he will continue his campaign for the Democratic nomination.

THE wife of defeated Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

The US presidential election sunk to a new low today as a public row over the sexuality of the vice president’s daughter rumbled on.

LYNNE Cheney, the US Vice President’s wife, accused John Kerry of pulling a “cheap and tawdry political trick” after he discussed her daughter’s sexuality in his TV debate with George W Bush.

NOT only was she a tubby unknown, but, just before the official photograph, she managed to spill coffee all over her good jacket.

Mark Sage on the US election campaign trail