Carlos Checa upstaged team-mate Valentino Rossi to take pole position for the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix at Losail.

Spaniard Carlos Checa is looking forward to what he believes will be his best-ever season after launching the Marlboro Yamaha team’s new four-stroke machine in Barcelona.

The director of Madrid’s Prado Museum director has dismissed claims by experts that two of the most famous paintings attributed to Francisco de Goya, The Colossus and The Milkmaid of Bordeaux, are not the work of the Spanish master.