Three astronauts return to Earth after six months on ISS

Three astronauts have landed back on Earth after nearly six months on board the International Space Station.

A Russian Soyuz capsule containing Nasa's Randy Bresnik, Russia's Sergey Ryazanskiy and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency descended under a red-and-white parachute and landed on schedule at 2:37pm local time on the vast steppes outside of a remote town in Kazakhstan.