Joan Rivers, the acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died yesterday. She was 81.

Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued American comedian, died today. She was 81.

TWO men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a cheque-cashing store and tried to cash his social security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said.