Clinton aide splits from husband hit by sext scandal

Huma Abedin, one of US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's top aides, yesterday said she was separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after a sex scandal similar to an earlier incident that led him to resign from the US Congress.

"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," Huma Abedin said in a statement.

Her announcement follows a New York Post report late Sunday that Weiner recently sent photos of his boxer-brief-clad genitals - one while he was in bed with their toddler son - via Twitter to another woman.

Weiner resigned in June 2011 from Congress, where he represented a New York City district, following a sexting scandal in which he accidentally posted an explicit photo of himself on his public Twitter timeline instead of via a direct message to a woman, as he had intended.

Weiner said he had undergone therapy after the first sexting scandal, according to media reports.

Clinton's Republican rival, Donald Trump, said in a statement, "Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him."