Doctors in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires reported progress today in treating Diego Maradona for alcohol abuse and other excesses that prompted the soccer great’s latest trip to hospital.

Initial medical tests on Argentine football hero Diego Maradona, who is being treated at a private clinic for alcoholism and excessive eating, are all “favourable”, doctors said.

POLICE say they found $19 million in cash under the floorboards of a house in Cali, Colombia, on Saturday.

Crews battling dangerously high levels of methane gas recovered 19 bodies from a coal mine in north-east Colombia following an explosion that killed 32 miners, a civil defence official said today.

Police have captured a top Colombian drug lord who is said to responsible for “huge volumes” of drugs entering the United States.