Maradona, 44, is deciding whether to have surgery in the picturesque port city of Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
A relaxed and lucid Diego Maradona said on Monday he was waiting for doctors' approval to permanently bolt the Cuban drug rehabilitation clinic.
Diego Maradona plans to interrupt his cocaine-addiction therapy in Cuba to spend Christmas at home with his family.
The Romanian striker joined up with the squad as they left for Yerevan to face Armenia in a World Cup qualifier next week.
FIFA has extended the seven-month ban on ex-Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu for drug abuse worldwide.
A Harvard study finds a 'peculiar relationship between the levels of political freedom a nation affords and the severity of terrorism.'
"I know I have disappointed them. I wish them all the best, and I wish to see Chelsea at a good level," the Romanian striker said.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he would consider signing the Romanian striker once he has served any ban.
The decision comes after the player's positive drugs test for cocaine and his admission that he took the drug.
The former principal of a Montessori school in Manhattan, who claimed she had consensual sex with a student at her school only when he had reached the age of consent, has appealed against her conviction.
Judge Norberto Garcia Vedia said the 43-year-old could continue treatment "at the clinic of his choice".
The 43-year-old wants Argentine President Nestor Kirchner to help free him from a psychiatric clinic where he is being held against his will.
The 17-year-old midfielder, also called Diego Maradona, is currently at his father's former club Napoli in Italy's Serie B.
The bandwagon of showmen and women across the globe has always maintained a steady yet discreet relationship with narcotics.
Diego Maradona cannot leave the clinic where he is being treated for cocaine addiction until a court says so, the judge overseeing his case decided.
Italian police arrested four alleged drug dealers suspected of supplying cocaine to Italian cycling great Marco Pantani, who died in February.
Bejoy Nambiar may have directed the film but it has Anurag Kashyap's pawprints all over its treatment.
He also said he would like to tour the world to thank those who prayed for his health.
'He is a little better than yesterday,' family doctor Alfredo Cahe said at the private Buenos Aires clinic where Maradona was taken on Sunday.
Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher has hit out at Williams boss Frank Williams and threatened to leave the team.
Luis Figo says he is ready to carry on playing for Portugal after this summer's European championships but only in tournament matches.
Like China, India needs to encourage 'hacker clubs' in view of the challenges of virtual terrorism, says Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd)
Prasad Divadkar along with Farhan Azmi, Shaan Uttam Singh and Bonito Chhabria were arrested in a Dubai hotel on suspicion of drug abuse.
ABC News reported Thursday that US agents had unearthed a drug ring that used babies to smuggle in cocaine and heroin.
Dum Maaro Dum is a very watchable film
Charles Darwin found his passion playing with rocks halfway around the world.
Real Madrid defender Michel Salgado has been made a "spectacular offer" to join Chelsea.
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