Expedition 44 arrives

Three more astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station to begin a five-month mission. Flight TMA-17M took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 21.02 GMT on Wednesday and docked less than six hours later.

This is the 126th flight of the Soyuz launcher since its maiden voyage in 1967. Its crew consists of the Russian Oleg Kononenko, Japan's Kimiya Yui and the Nasa astronaut Kjell Lindgren.