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NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Joan Rivers said she would work "forever." Rivers, whose latest TV gig at age 81 was hosting "Fashion Police" on E!, died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She had gone into cardiac arrest Aug. 28 after undergoing a routine procedure in a doctor's office. Her daughter Melissa Rivers says, "My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh." She says, "I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon."
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says new procedures to improve Oklahoma's execution process must be implemented before the state resumes putting prisoners to death by lethal injection. Investigators on Thursday presented their findings in the April execution of Clayton Lockett, who died 43 minutes after being given three execution drugs. Fallin says she still believes the death penalty is a just punishment for those guilty of the most heinous crimes, but that the state must make sure it's carried out effectively.
NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — White House officials say they don't expect NATO members gathered at a summit in Wales to commit to a military mission against the militant group Islamic State, but they're also looking for commitments to send weapons, ammunition and other assistance to Western-backed Syrian rebels and to Iraqi forces. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have been pressing NATO members to confront the "brutal and poisonous" militant group.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Officials in central Bosnia say 34 miners are trapped deep inside a coal mine that's collapsed. The mine union leader at the Zenica coal mine says two tunnels collapsed Thursday evening following a gas explosion triggered by a minor earthquake that had hit the area. He says the miners are trapped more than 1,600 feet underground, but are alive and have enough air.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The death toll from severe flooding and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir has risen to at least 28 people, and authorities are now asking for help from federal rescue officials. Officials say the death toll includes two bodies recovered after a bus carrying more than 50 members of a wedding party was swept away into a stream Thursday. Only four passengers managed to swim to safety. After four days of rains, thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes in search of shelter.
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