Hillary memoir fuels talk of 2016 White House run

Hillary Clinton, already the frontrunner in the minds of many Democrats for the 2016 US presidential election, is writing a memoir about world affairs and her time as secretary of state. The news will likely fuel more speculation about her political future.

The presidential prospects of Clinton, wife of former president Bill, are a subject of feverish speculation in Washington and elsewhere as Democrats look to see over the horizon past President Barack Obama.

The book, her fifth, is to be published next year, and a tour to promote the memoir in 2014 would serve only to generate more guessing about her plans for 2016.