Russian filmmakers head for Earth from space station

Actress Yulia Peresild, left, film director Klim Shipenko, centre, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov aboard the ISS earlier this month (Roscosmos Space Agency/AP)

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers separated from the International Space Station and was headed back to Earth on Sunday.

The separation took place on schedule in the early hours of Sunday morning BST, with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard for a descent of about three-and-a-half hours.