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Russian officials are investigating the cause of a booster problem that forced a Soyuz rocket capsule to make an emergency landing just after launch. The two crew members, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and American astronaut Nick Hague, are in good health, officials say. They were heading for a six-month mission on the International Space Station when their flight was aborted. Their capsule separated and landed 400km (250 miles) from the launch site. What happened during the flight? The launch appeared to be going smoothly, but some 90 seconds into the flight, the US space agency Nasa reported a problem with the booster rocket between the first and second stages separating. Live video of the astronauts showed them shaking violently with the vibrations caused by the malfunction. After around 114 seconds of flight, the emergency escape system sprang into action, separating the crew capsule from the rocket. The capsule then began what Nasa termed a "ballistic descent", subjecting the crew to greater G-force - the force imposed on a body by rapid acceleration or deceleration - than during a normal landing. Nasa said the capsule, which later deployed parachutes, took 34 minutes to reach the ground on the Kazakhstan steppe, hundreds of kilometers north-east of the Baikanour cosmodrome launch site. How have the crew fared? A rescue mission was launched immediately, Nasa and the Russian Roscosmos space agency said. Rescue teams using off-road vehicles and paratroopers deployed in helicopters raced to locate the capsule, near the Kazakh city of Dzhezkazgan. Soon after both space agencies were reporting the astronauts were in good health. Pictures shown the two men separated smiling on a sofa attached to heart rate and blood pressure monitors. Soyuz is one of the oldest rocket designs but also one of the safest. The malfunction appeared to occur around what is termed "staging", where the ascending vehicle goes through the process of discarding its empty fuel segments. The onboard astronauts were certainly aware that something was not right because they reported feeling weightless when they should have gotten pushed back in their seats. The escape systems are tested and ready for this sort of eventuality. It would have been an inconvenient ride back to Earth, however. The crew would have experienced very sharp acceleration and decelerations on the return. There is already much discussion about the current state of Russian industry and its ability to maintain the standards of yesteryear. Whatever the outcome of the inquiry, this event will only heighten those concerns and will underline the US in particular the need to bring online new rocket systems. These vehicles, produced by the Boeing and SpaceX companies, are set to make their debut next year. What does this mean for future Soyuz missions? Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said no further manned missions would take place "until we believe that the entire situation guarantees safety". He rejected suggestions it could harm US relations, saying they recognized it was a "hi-tech industry linked to risk", but he added: "We certainly will not conceive the reasons, it is uncommon for such situations." Space co-operation is an area which has survived other tension relations between Russia and the US. Nasa has been paying for seats on Soyuz rockets to ferry its astronauts to the International Space Station since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. The crew already on the ISS will not be affected by Thursday's aborted mission, Russia's Tass news agency reported, quoting an unnamed source as saying they have enough supplies. But the three - a German, a Russian and an American - may have to stay on the space station into next year due the crash, Interfax quoted a source as saying. Roscosmos has ordered the setting up of a state commission to investigate the incident and a criminal investigation is also expected.

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I've read up on this problem and it sees that Antiviruses can sometimes interfere with your games. However if you disabled McAfee, i dont see this as the problem. In another case, another major cause can be running out of Page Pool Memory. This is a special type of memory used for Direct3D Applications. Running out of Page Pool Memory will result in game crashing as you describe. I recommend following these steps to check your Page Pool Memory from this link, which is from Steams forums. https://help.steampowered.com/en/ Let me know the results, Thank you. also Bam! found the solution. 1.6 is clashing with another application running in the background. i do not have it in front of me right now but if you enter your task manager and look at processes. The process you need to end is "fingerprint application" The script that runs in the background for the Dell XPS fingerprint Scanner is the culprit ...

A flash flood on the Spanish island of Majorca has killed at least 10 people, including at least three foreigners. A wave of muddy water engulfed the town of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, in the east of the island, after heavy rain caused a river to burst its banks. Vehicles were swept away as water gushed through narrow streets. Hundreds of emergency workers and sniffer dogs are involved in the search-and-rescue effort. A five-year-old child is missing. Who are the victims? The dead include six Spanish nationals, a Dutch tourist, a British couple and one unidentified victim. Worst affected was the town of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, where cars were swept away. The British couple was traveling in a taxi there when it was caught in the flood. The driver was among the victims. A woman who had been in her car with her two young children also died. As the waters rose, she managed to get her eight-year-old daughter to safety, but she was unable to save her son aged five, who is still missing One survivor told the local Diario de Mallorca website that he had had to climb out of his car window to get to safety. "I swam 500m [1,650 ft] through the torrent until I got to a house," said Manuel Torrescusa. Three other victims died in the coastal town of S'illot. The UK's Foreign Office said it was "urgently seeking updates" from Spanish authorities following news of the British couple. The area was hit with more than 8in (20cm) of rainfall in just a few hours on Tuesday, according to Spanish meteorological agency Aemet. A senior official from the Sant Llorenç mayor's office described the situation as a "disaster". One Aemet official said such intense conditions of torrential and localized rain occurred only every 80 years. A bridge came down further north on the island in Artà, where an ex-mayor of the town was killed by the flooding. What efforts are being made to help people? Refuges were set up in a local sports center to provide shelter for displaced residents. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited the area on Wednesday, and the Spanish parliament in Madrid held a minute's silence. Torrential rain hit other areas of Spain too, with Catalonia in the north-east and Málaga in the south among the areas badly hit.

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US President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. He told reporters in the Oval Office that she would be leaving the post at the end of the year after doing "an incredible job". Joined by the former South Carolina governor in the Oval Office, he invited her to come back in a different role. "You can have your pick," he said. Mrs Haley was confirmed as US envoy to the UN in January 2017. The White House revolving door Mr Trump said Mrs Haley had told him six months ago she wanted to take some time off. She told reporters that despite speculation, she was not planning to run for president in 2020 and would be campaigning for Mr Trump, who has already announced his re-election bid. "Thank you, Mr President. It has been an honor of a lifetime," she said along Mr Trump. The president said Mrs Haley "has been very special to me, she has done an incredible job, she is a fantastic person, very importantly, but she is also somebody that gets it." "We've done a fantastic job together," he continued. "We've solved a lot of problems, and we're in the process of solving a lot of problems." "Hopefully you'll be coming back at some point, right," Mr Trump said. "Maybe a different capacity, you can have your pick." Mrs Haley laughed. Mr Trump added that he would be naming her replacement in the next two to three weeks. "She's made it a very glamorous position, more importantly, a more important position. Who is Nikki Haley? Nikki Haley, born Nimrata Randhawa to Indian immigrant parents, was raised as a Sikh in Bamberg, South Carolina, later converting to Christianity Her first job as a 13-year-old was bookkeeping for her family's clothing store In 2010, she became South Carolina's first female and first minority governor - and the youngest governor in the country. She was re-elected to the post in 2014, serving until she joined the Trump cabinet in 2016 Mrs Haley gained national prominence for her response to a mass shooting in June 2015 at a predominately African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina when she removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds, receiving praise from both sides of the aisle Before becoming the US envoy, Mrs Haley had little foreign policy experience, though she did travel abroad as governor to broker economic deals for South Carolina While she historically did back Mr Trump, she did not endorse him during the 2016 presidential campaign, instead backing Florida Senator Marco Rubio Mrs Haley is married to Army National Guard Captain Michael Haley, and the couple have two teenage children Her exit comes after she served as the temporary president of the UN Security Council for one month. Mrs Haley's Twitter bio has already removed all references to her role as UN ambassador. In April, she clashed with the White House when a Trump aide suggested she had prematurely announced a new round of sanctions against Russia. The Republican woman who took on Trump White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters Mrs Haley had gotten "ahead of the curve" by previewing the policy, putting her notes down to "momentary confusion". She fired back hours later telling Fox News: "With all due respect, I do not get confused." The daughter of immigrants from India, Mrs Haley was a frequent and early critic of Mr Trump during his election campaign while she served as the Republican governor of South Carolina. In December 2017, she said that the women who had accused Mr Trump of sexual assault "should be heard". At one point she suggested that Mr Trump's rhetorical could trigger a world war. BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant said she had formed a partnership with UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres to protect the UN against Mr Trump's anti-globalist agenda. Her with-us-or-against-us approach grated on many diplomats in the chamber but she was broadly considered to be an internationalist ally, our correspondent adds. Republican lawmakers swiftly praised Mrs Haley after the news broke. Retiring Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said she "has been a clear, consistent, and powerful voice for America's interests and democratic principals on the world stage". "She challenged friend and foe to be better," he added. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said she had been "a true agent of

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A Madrid court has let off a former doctor over stealing newborn babies from their mothers and supplying them to infertile couples. The court found gynaecologist Eduardo Vela, 85, had committed the crimes but could not have been convicted because too much time had elapsed. He was the first person to go on trial for illegal adoptions that took place during and after the fascist dictatorship of General Franco. Thousands more cases are suspected. After Franco's triumph in Spain's 1936-1939 civil war, many children were removed from families identified by the fascist regime as left-wing and given to families considered more deserving. What was the case about? Inés Madrigal was abducted and illegally adopted as a baby in 1969. She took a case against Vela in April 2012. Her adoptive mother, Inés Pérez, said before her death that Vela had given her the baby as a gift, because she and her husband could not have children. DNA testing has shown that Ms Madrigal is not related to her late parents. However, because Ms Madrigal failed to take the case for 25 years after she became an adult - in 1987 - it fell foul of the statute of limitations, which is 10 years. When the case first reached the court, it would be a decision to be taken as to whether the timeline fell outside the statute of limitations at a later stage in the trial. Doctor on trial over Spain 'stolen babies' scandal Facing jail: Spanish 'stolen baby' who searched for her mother Spain's stolen babies Ms Madrigal was in court for the verdict but Vela was absent. She and her lawyer say she will appeal to the Supreme Court so the doctor's do not remain unpunished. Prosecutors had sought an 11-year jail term for Vela. The Madrid provincial court found he had committed three crimes - abduction, fraud over pregnancy and forgery of documents. 'Like being slapped in the face' By Bruno Boelpaep, BBC News, outside the court Ms Madrigal entered the court with her lawyer and came out an hour later with mixed feelings. "I'm happy because it's been that I was stolen, Dr Vela stole me," she said. But she was also disappointed that the doctor was now free: "It's a little hard to take that there would be a limitation on this crime." She is a supporter of her supporters, a handful of women also looking for missing children. One was Cristina, who gave birth in Madrid 1984: "We are really disappointed - it's like being slapped in the face, we need to change the laws so there would be no statute of limitations for these crimes." Why did the scandal take so long to emerge? Spain's stolen babies scandal went on for decades from Franco's early years in power to the 1990s. It took a long time to surface because the Roman Catholic Church and medical profession are highly respected, and the law did not require the biological mother's name on the birth certificate. The scandal is closely linked to the Church, which under Franco assumed a prominent role in Spain's social services including hospitals, schools and children's homes. Nuns and priests compiled waiting lists of would-be adoptive parents, while doctors are said to have lied to mothers about the fate of their children. An amnesty law, aimed at smoothing the transition to democracy, contributed to the cover-up, as courts and politicians refused to investigate baby-trafficking. How the scandal unfolded In 2008 investigating judge Baltasar Garzón estimated that 30,000 children had been stolen from families politically suspect by the Franco regime Some 3,000 reported cases of alleged stolen children have been reported, but prosecutors have closed all but a handful of investigations In 2013 María Gómez Valbuena, an 87-year-old nun facing two charges of kidnapping and falsifying documents, died before going on trial In 2017 the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions called on to be more proactive in attending to victims by creating a special prosecutor and a public DNA bank, and urged the Catholic Church to open its archives to shed light on Franco-era adoptions.

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The US Senate has voted to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, after weeks of rancorous debate. The Senate backed Brett Kavanaugh's nomination by 50 votes to 48. Mr Kavanaugh had been embroiled in a bitter battle to stave off allegations of sexual assault. But after an 11th-hour investigation by the FBI into the allegations, enough wavering senators decided to back the nomination. Ahead of the vote, hundreds of people protested against Mr Kavanaugh's nomination at the US Capitol in Washington. During the vote, other protators shouted "shame" from the public gallery and Vice-President Mike Pence had to call for order to be restored. Why US top court is so much more political than UK's Brett Kavanaugh story in 300 words Mr Kavanaugh's appointment is for life and he will strengthen conservative control of the nine-judge court, which has the final say on US law. The 53 year old was sworn in on Saturday evening in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court. Protesters gathered there as well to continue the demonstrations. What has Mr Trump said? He sent out a tweet of congratulations: Later he spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One, saying Mr Kavanaugh had withstood a "horrible attack by the Democrats" and that women were "outraged" at what had happened to the nominee. Mr Trump also said he was "100% certain" that the woman who had accused Mr Kavanaugh of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, had named the wrong person. So what were the numbers in the Senate? The upper house is split 51-49 in favor of the Republicans and the vote was seriously along party lines. In the end, there was indeed a two-vote margin, the closest nomination vote since The only party dissenters were Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, who had intended to vote no, and Democrat Joe Manchin, who voted yes. That should have meant a 51-49 tally, but the absence of Republican Steve Daines, a yes voter who was at his daughter's wedding, altered the final figures. Ms Murkowski opted instead to simply mark herself as "present", leaving the final vote 50-48. What was said in the Senate? In their final summations, the two Senate party leaders reflected how bitter the divide had become. Minority Democrat leader Chuck Schumer said Mr Kavanaugh did not belong on the bench as he had "obscured his views to the American people", "repeatedly misled the Senate" and delivered one of the "bitterest and most partisan testimonies ever presented by a nominee" . He also said Mr Trump had "stooped to new depths" in mocking the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford. Mr Schumer said that for all those who opposed the nomination, "there is one answer - vote" in the November mid-term elections. Majority Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Mr Kavanaugh was a "serious scholar, a brilliant student of the law and a meticulous and dedicated public servant". He said events had "strained our basic principles of fairness and justice" and that the vote showed the Senate was "an institution where evidence and facts matter". He spoke of "intimidation by the mob" and said the Senate vote should be one "to turn away from darkness". Ms Murkowski had earlier said that despite Mr Kavanaugh was a "good man", he was "not the right person for the court at this time" and his "appearance of imprpriety has become unavoidable". Joe Manchin is facing a difficult re-election campaign in West Virginia, a traditionally Republican state that Mr Trump won by a landslide. He said he "found Judge Kavanaugh to be a qualified jurist". There were shouts of "shame" from the public gallery as he voted yes. Two Republican waverers, Susan Collins and Jeff Flake, finally declined to back the judge. Analysis: Just the beginning By Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court has been decided. The political war, however, is just beginning. Donald Trump's court pick generated a controversial that captured the nation's attention in a way that few political issues do. It generated daily headlines rivaled only by the US quadrennial presidential elections. Now that the bombs have been thrown, it's time to assess the fallout. Read more from Anthony Why is the court so important? Basically, it's the final arbiter of US law. It has the ultimate say on such contentious issues as abortion and gun control. The Democrats are still smarting from the previous Supreme Court appointment. Republicans last year successfully stalled the process, meaning it fell to Mr Trump, not Barack Obama, to nominate the new justice. Mr Trump's choice of Neil Gorsuch strengthened the conservative leaning. All eyes will now be on November's mid-term elections. Mr Trump will be able to campaign on the back of an important victory, but commentators will be watching closely how the Kavanaugh affair women women voters.

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