AP - Queen Latifah has revealed a traumatic chapter of her personal life: The singer-actress was sexually abused as a child.

AP - The party won't stop after the BET Awards are over, and Queen Latifah (Lah-TEE'-fah) will be around to make sure of it.

AP - A makeup artist and a fashion stylist claim in coordinated lawsuits that they got ugly treatment from Queen Latifah when she cheated them out of $1 million.

Reuters - Some of secular music's top acts -- among them Queen Latifah, Jon Bon Jovi, Joss Stone and 3 Doors Down -- take a walk on the spiritual side for "Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration."

New mother M.I.A. missed out on the Oscar telecast, and then missed out on the Oscar itself, as her fellow Slumdog Millionaire nominee A.R. Rahman took home the trophies for both Original Score and Original Song-- the latter for his Bollywood closing-credit number "Jai Ho". M.I.A. and Rahman's "O Saya" was considerd a longshot for the song award...