DIEGO MARADONA is set to quit as coach of Argentina following their World Cup mauling by Germany in South Africa, according to reports.

New Argentina coach Diego Maradona has dismissed suggestions he will resign if he does not get his choice of assistant.

The disappearance of Carlos Castano, Colombia’s most influential paramilitary leader, is believed to have put the outlawed militias even more firmly in the hands of drug traffickers.

John Frankenheimer, director of such Hollywood classics as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Birdman of Alcatraz," has died. He was 72.