• Seaplane with seven people on board plummets into the ocean near popular Australian tourist island
• Royal Society of Literature in chaos as chairman and director resign amid accusations it lowered standards to have a 'more diverse' membership and failed to support Salman Rushdie after near-fatal stabbing
• Map reveals where four inches of snow will fall within hours as Arctic blast shuts four UK airports and London is hit by flurry
• Man, 25, pleads not guilty to assisting former soldier Daniel Khalife after he escaped from Wandsworth prison
• Two people are found dead in a JetBlue plane that landed in Florida from NYC's JFK