Rihanna took the stage at Barrington High School moments ago for her much-anticipated visit. Her fans, nearly despondent minutes earlier, greeted her with wild applause and Beatlemania-type screaming.

“Thank you guys for coming and waiting,” the Barbadian signer said, before paying tribute to the school’s charitable works.

The school won the visit with Rihanna – hours before she’s due to perform at the United Center – after winning a contest she sponsored. She invited schools to produce videos set her “Diamonds” single that would highlight charitable work. Barrington High’s video, produced by students of the BHS-TV class, is a montage of shots that shine a light on several different philanthropic initiatives in which the school participates. Among many other service projects both local and nationwide, the school has assisted tornado victims in Joplin, Mo., and Natives American who live on a reservation in South Dakota.

“With a whole lot of polishing and collaboration, we can all shine bright like a diamond,” says the narrator of the video.

Rihanna’s website said the contest was intended to honor the “most creative and inspiring lipdub or video that includes a giving back to your community (and world!) message.”

About 2,500 people assembled in the gymnasium of the northwest suburban high school awaiting Rihanna’s arrival.

A school official announced that someone in the crowd will win an autographed Rihanna CD and tickets to her show tonight at the United Center.

Rihanna looked beautiful as she attended the Rihanna for River Island collection launch in London last night. She got some beautiful curls and dressed in a gorgeous long sleeved black dress which revealed one of her legs.

The collection is now available worldwide, through riverisland.com and some selected stores.

ELLE was present there with the fans who won the Meet & Greet competition. They wrote a short summary of the whole event which you can read after the cut.

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Rihanna left Los Angeles and is on her way to London to launch her River Island collection.  You can watch the show live at facebook.com/rihanna at 12:30 PST, 3:30 EST, 8:30 GMT.

ELLE UK has also revealed that Rihanna will be covering their March 2013 issue.

 ELLE will have exclusive access backstage, so stay tuned to ELLEUK.COM for the first look at the 120-piece collection, plus all the catwalk pics and, of course, the front row review.”

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Rihanna’s third fragrance ‘Nude’, the follow up to 2011′s successful ‘Rebelle’ was launched at Macy’s yesterday. She attended the Meet & Greet event held for the first 300 buyers of the fragrance, where she stunned fans stepping out in a beautiful white dress. Check out the pictures in our gallery.

Rihanna walked the red carpet of GQ Men Of The Year party at Chateau Marmont in LA last night. She looked beautiful, with her hair straightened. Check out the first pictures below. More pictures will be added soon so make sure to visit us back again.

Rihanna just wrapped up performing at the 2012 IHeartRadio festival. She did an amazing performance, which left all of us breathless. Rihanna closed the day 1 of the festival, with her energetic dance moves and Egyptian themed performances.

There are HD videos of the show already available on YouTube. Thanks to the french fansite Rihanna-Diva for putting them up so soon. Check out the videos below. We will be adding pictures as soon as they are available.

• Intro & Only Girl (In The World)
• Disturbia
• S&M
• Cockiness (Love It)
• Birthday Cake
• Talk That Talk
• Where Have You Been
• What’s My Name?
• Run This Town
• Live Your Life
• All Of The Lights
• Don’t Stop The Music
• Umbrella
• We Found Love

We have also added over 200 pictures from her performance. Check some thumbnails below.

Rihanna performance on the NBC’s The Today Show yesterday morning at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, NY. She performed ‘S&M’, ‘Only Girl (In The World)’, ‘What’s My Name’ and her current single ‘California King Bed’. Watch the videos and view more than 60 images on the full story.

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Rihanna has ended her performance during the celebration of the 75th anniversary of FC Shakhtar football club in Donetsk, Ukraine a few hours ago. She wore a new amazing outfit! WoOw!

Pictures and videos available after the cut! She looked fabulous.
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This video contains snippets from Nivea’s commercial featuring Rihanna! Also includes a meet & greet and scenes of her on stage receiving flowers, awwn! <3.

Rihanna was the guest performer at the Nivea 100th anniversary celebration in Milan, Italy today on May 5th. She wore a gorgeous white Dolce & Gabbana while performed her currently single ‘California King Bed’. More pictures after the cut!

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