Herman Cain is still campaigning for US president. But by most measures, allegations of sexual harassment and a 13-year extra-marital affair have all but ended the White House bid by the former pizza company executive.

NEWT GINGRICH has for the first time taken the lead over US President Barack Obama in a national poll.

Republican presidential contender Herman Cain ploughed ahead amid mounting allegations of sexual misconduct including an extramarital affair.

THE Cain train drives on.

EMBATTLED US presidential candidate Herman Cain told aides he is reassessing his campaign after a businesswoman alleged a 13-year extramarital affair with the Republican.

In an explosive allegation, a woman said that she and Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair that lasted nearly until the former businessman announced his candidacy for the White House several months ago.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain suggested that the Taliban were playing a role in Libya’s new government, adding another foreign policy mis-step to his stumbling campaign.

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Herman Cain is trying to explain his Rick Perry moment in a videotaped interview, just as the Georgia businessman tries to make his upstart campaign less controversial and more conventional.

US presidential contender Herman Cain’s attempts to put a sexual harassment scandal to rest were set back as a witness disputed the candidate’s claim that he had never met one of his accusers.

US president Barack Obama has said sanctions on Iran are having “enormous bite,” but he still wants to work with Russia and China to find more ways of putting pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme.

MITT ROMNEY has a growing lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and almost half of the party’s voters expect him to be the nominee, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

REPUBLICAN presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann have both said they would reinstate waterboarding during interrogations of suspected terrorists, while rivals Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman both say they see the procedure as torture.

Republican presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann have both said they would reinstate waterboarding during interrogations of suspected terrorists, while rivals Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman both say they see the procedure as torture.

REPUBLICAN Herman Cain insisted yesterday he could not remember meeting a woman who has accused him of groping her in the 1990s, as a spiralling scandal threatened to derail his White House bid.

US Republican presidential contender Herman Cain reached under a woman’s skirt and pushed her head toward pants, she claimed today.

Another woman has accused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment.

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Rick Perry denied charges from rival Herman Cain that his campaign was responsible for leaking accusations of sexual harassment that have shaken Cain’s 2012 White House bid.

HIS presidential campaign in turmoil, Republican favourite Herman Cain refused to say last night whether he will ask his former employer — the National Restaurant Association — to terminate confidentiality restrictions on women who accused him of sexual harassment in the 1990s while he was head of the trade group.

US businessman Herman Cain denied he sexually harassed former employees and battling accusations of financial misconduct in his campaign as he navigates his way at the front of the pack in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Herman Cain refused to directly address a media report saying he had been accused of sexually suggestive behaviour towards at least two female employees while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

Would-be Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has denied reports he faced sexual harassment accusations from staff in the 1990s.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is unveiling his economic plan today hoping to recover the top contender spot in the race to challenge president Barack Obama.

A CONFIDENT Mitt Romney criticised his Republican rivals and fended off attacks at a feisty deb-ate that could help reinstall him as the party’s presidential frontrunner.

Republican presidential contenders turned the heat on the two frontrunners in a debate, attacking businessman Herman Cain’s economic plan as a tax increase and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney over his health care law.

THE announcement by Sarah Palin that she will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in America’s presidential election next year, will provoke relief and disappointment in equal measure.

US President Barack Obama said anti-Wall Street protests in New York and beyond were an expression of public anger over the antics of bankers and frustration over the moribund economy.

Unions lent their muscle to the long-running protests against Wall Street and economic inequality yesterday, with their members joining thousands of protesters in a lower Manhattan march as smaller demonstrations flourished across the US.

QUICK to tangle, Republican presidential rivals Rick Perry and Mitt Romney sparred vigorously over job creation and social security in a feisty campaign debate that marked a contentious new turn in the race to pick a 2012 challenger to President Barack Obama.

Republican presidential rivals Rick Perry and Mitt Romney tangled over their records on creating jobs in a campaign debate that marked a contentious new turn in the race to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama next year.

Minnesota rivals Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann have sparred bitterly in a Republican presidential debate, trying to stand out ahead of an Iowa test vote with huge consequences.

Republican Herman Cain is apologising to Muslim leaders for vitriolic remarks he made about Islam while campaigning for the US presidential nomination.

Another Republican has formally entered the race for the US presidential nomination, just months after stepping down as President Barack Obama’s ambassador to China.

REPUBLICAN presidential candidates used their first big televised debate to lash out at President Barack Obama — but not each other.

DESPITE a spate of discouraging economic reports, US President Barack Obama insisted yesterday he is not afraid of the country slipping into a double-dip recession. But at the same time he displayed impatience, saying the pace of the recovery has “got to accelerate”.

The Republican Party’s search for a challenger in the 2012 presidential race seems stranger by the day.