Whitney Houston laid to rest at private burial

Whitney Houston was laid to rest on Sunday at a brief private ceremony in New Jersey, the end of a weekend that saw the pop star's family and friends gather at a star-studded funeral to mourn her loss while celebrating her career. Fans and onlookers gathered in several places along the route the motorcade took from the Newark funeral home to the cemetery about 30 kilometres away in Westfield, where Houston was buried next to her father, who died in 2003. The 48-year-old singer died on February 11 in California, hours before she was to attend a pre-Grammy Awards party. No cause of death has been determined. On Saturday, she was mourned at an invitation-only funeral at the church in Newark where she sang in the choir as a child.