Lil Wayne, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Kanye West all hit the stage at the 2011 VMA’s. HelloBeautiful will be providing you with performances as they occur!

via Globalpost Five women who were part of Muammar Gaddafi’s elite team of female bodyguards have claimed they were raped by the deposed Libyan leader. According to the Sunday Times of Malta, the former bodyguards told a Benghazi-based psychologist that they were raped and abused by Gaddafi and his sons, before being tossed aside once […]

via BBC News The most ferocious storm to hit the US East Coast for years, Hurricane Irene, is bearing down on New York City, threatening major flooding. Torrential rain is pounding the city, and there are fears a predicted surge of up to 8ft of water along the shoreline could breach flood defences. The hurricane […]

via CNN Dr. Ford Vox is a medical writer and neuro-rehabilitation physician. He is the medical director of Brain Injury Rehabilitation at New England Rehabilitation Hospital and clinical assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University School of Medicine. A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on […]

via CNN Roland S. Martin is a syndicated columnist and author of “The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House.” He is a commentator for TV One cable network and host/managing editor of its Sunday morning news show, “Washington Watch with Roland Martin.” It’s only fitting that during the week we were to […]

via CNN The U.S. State Department got personal in its complaints against the Syrian government Thursday, accusing it of a “targeted, brutal attack” on a popular Syrian political cartoonist, Ali Farzat. Shortly after a cartoon by Farzat depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hitching a ride with outgoing Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi began circulating in Syria, […]