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.

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.

LAWYERS for a Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay released excerpts of videotaped interrogations yesterday, providing a first-ever glimpse into the secretive world of questioning enemy combatants at the isolated US prison in Cuba.